Re: LocateLineMatching madness

[Steve Wray]

On Thursday 06 May 2004 09:45, Tod Oace wrote:
> On May 5, 2004, at 05:40, Alexander Jolk wrote:
[snip]
>
> Seems like it would be nice if we had something like:
>
> ReplaceAllLinesMatching "URI.*" With "URI ldap://localhost/";
>
> That *seems* convergent and safe to me but maybe someone else can see
> a problem with it. If it doesn't work, how about:
>
> CompleteAllLinesBeginning "URI " With "ldap://localhost/";

Actually, I'd been thinking it would be *really* nice to have some sort 
of 'capture' functionality ie;

ReplaceRegexMatching "(URI ldap://)foo/" "\1bar/"

so we would go from a line
URI ldap://foo
to a line;
URI ldap://bar

Not a fantastic example, but you get the picture.