On 10.12.17 22:16, ael wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 07:09:27PM -0300, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> > Is there in Devuan a text editor that will do find/replace on a regexp ?
> 
> Almost every non trivial editor will do that: my favorite is vim.
> 

Vim (gvim is the GUI version) offers a number of regex flavours,
Typing ":help regex" brings up the relevant help, including links to
more info. Section 3, magic, contains a table showing the differences
between the flavours.

The default flavour is similar to posix BRE, and is similarly beset by
an obfuscating excess of backslashes which make the regex hard to read.
Setting "\v" very magic fixes that, and is a close approximation of
posix ERE, as used in awk, sed, lex, ...

Erik
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