I found this to be a good command line text editing reference:
https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processing
On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 6:54 PM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> On 03/04/2018 09:26 AM, Richard Owlett 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.
>>
>> But is there an already tested function for that?
>> TIA
>>
>
> I've received several suggestions.
> It appears that "vim" is closest to my "mind set".
> I went to the homepage and found ~half-dozen links.
> I found >dozen links to problems I hadn't mentioned.
>
> *FOR THE RECORD*
> Although EVERYTHING could solve stated problem, the vim homepage suggested
> solutions to problems I had not specified.
> I don't know ho they would take it, BUT the think like me.
>
> I've got up to a week's homework ...
>
> THANK YOU
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