POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Emacs : Re: Emacs Server Time
1 Oct 2024 05:18:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Emacs  
From: nemesis
Date: 22 Apr 2009 14:01:24
Message: <49ef5b74@news.povray.org>
Darren New escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Darren New escreveu:
>>> nemesis wrote:
>>>> Batch editing with pipes and sed has no place in today's fast-paced 
>>>> interactive programming.
>>>
>>> Heh heh heh.
>>
>> Is that a sed programmer laugh? :)
> 
> No. That's from someone who just went thru 250+ directories, found all 
> the files with the string SDL or sdl in the file name, directory name, 
> or inside the files, and duplicated it to another file, directory, or 
> #ifdef section within the file, as appropriate.
> 
> Do that interactively? I'd still be at it.

True, that excellent use for the batch tools.  That's also not typical 
source code editing.

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