This question is kind of on the subject…
Way back in the mid-1980s there was an editor for DOS called "See".
This was a C programming tool, came free with the magazine Dr. Dobbs Journal.
It had a macro record and playback function which was the most useful feature I have ever seen. Suppose you have a source text file where on each line you want to search for a word and then replace the next few words or change something that may be different in each line, you could manually record the search and keystrokes into a macro for the first occurrence, then playback that macro for each subsequent line.
It was very simplistic, and just repeated what you did during recording. Unfortunately, it was for DOS and limited to 64 kB files.
This was the most useful feature I have ever used. in fact, I still have it somewhere, and still try to use it every 10 years or so.
Does anyone's favorite search-and-replace tool include a function like this?
The need for something like this is much less than it used to be, but there are still times when I say to myself: "I wish I had See."
Barry.
