Re: 2004 wildcard fix-good and bad

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From: A. Hill (ahillnyc_at_aol.com)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: 24 May 2004 07:26:51 -0700

Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP] <korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org> wrote in message news:<eMNFIHQQEHA.3300@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
> On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:08:13 -0500, A. Hill wrote
> (in article <a0491e7.0405230308.7621f24b@posting.google.com>):
>
> >
> > Alas, I don't see any new tools here. Nothing new in Help. ~A
>
> Indeed. Just a few bug fixes. Nevertheless, there is still the possilibty to
> pipe the text to BBEdit or grep through AppleScript. I've been to lazy to
> write the code for myself, I simply copy and paste between apps. Since the
> tools weren't there I got used to work as much as I could in BBEdit and then
> transfer the text to Word for formatting.

C,
What is grep? I don't know it.
I may not be able to take advantage of it, since my macros are for
user's toolbars in Word, but I'm curious.

Now the bad news: I just noticed a possible unfixed wildcard bug.
To find paragraph marks in a wildcard expression, Help says to use
^13.
In my 2004 test drive, it doesn't find them, although ^12 does find
section breaks as promised.
I tried using (^13). It finds the first, but if you Find Next you get
the spinning beachball.
I think I've seen complaints about this in this forum before.
I guess we'll see a fix in, oh say, 2008. ~A

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