On 2018-03-04, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> My eventual goal is to create a personalized FAQ.
> To that end I've collected all my outgoing mail which DOES NOT have
> "Re:" in the Subject into a single file {used standard SeaMonkey tools}.
>
> Using a text editor's search&replace function I've placed "KEY1" at the
> beginning of the body of each message. Similarly, I've placed "KEY2" at
> the end of each body.
>
> Searches led to <http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_16.html> which
> describes tools to do word frequency tasks, primarily with bash builtins.
>
> First I need to eliminate the irrelevant text between "KEY2" of the
> previous message and "KEY1" of the message of interest. It should be
> straight forard to do in BASIC.
vim (hit escape to get into command mode)
:/KEY2/+1;/KEY1/-1d
will delete everything between KEY2 and KEY1, excluding the
matching lines.
I think. Well, I just gave it a trivial workout and it worked (for a
trivial case).
> But is there an already tested function for that?
> TIA
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