But I highly doubt a power programmer would use it

why do you say that? Because it it proprietory? Because it has a graphical interface?

For example, I don't see a way to do sentence case

Try selecting the word you want to capitalise and hit the F5 key. But this is not something you really need when editing code....UE is designed with editing code in mind.

And it's RE engine isn't capable of knocking out any heavy duty search and replace functions.

:-) But have you looked??

Do Ctrl - F to bring up the Find dialogue, hit the 'Help' button to bring up the help for text searching. This brings up the 'simple' regular expressions (eg - ^p for a crlf). Halfway down the page there is a link to 'Full regular expressions'. You can choose *nix or UE syntax, and the regex features are extensive: I would wager more than you will ever need.

I am not sure what a power programmer is, but this fulltime programmer has no complaints with UE after 4 years - 2 years of using Emacs before that - <aside> "which is a nice OS, but lacks a good text editor" :-) (anon) </aside>. I now use UE to edit my *nix files across samba!

I recommend that you take a good long look at the feature set of UE - or upgrade to the latest version.

Hope this helps.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: One button text processing (OT) by bm
in thread One button text processing by nysus

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