[1] From: Steve Taylor <ussjt@emory.edu> (8)
Subject: Re: 10.0685 wordprocessor with grep?
[2] From: Don Wilkins <dwilkins@ucr.campus.mci.net> (34)
Subject: Re: 10.0685 wordprocessor with grep?
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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 08:42:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Taylor <ussjt@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: 10.0685 wordprocessor with grep?
>>I'd be interested in knowing how a good word processor will let one find
>>data (except within whatever documents one happens to have open.) I do not
>>know of any word processors with the equivalent of the UNIX grep command . . .
I believe that the word processor Nisus provides searching with GREP.
Steve Taylor
Faculty Information Technology Center
Emory University
(404)727-8931
http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ussjt/
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Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 14:07:16 +0000
From: Don Wilkins <dwilkins@ucr.campus.mci.net>
Subject: Re: 10.0685 wordprocessor with grep?
Since the original comment about using a word processor was mine, let me
respond. My own approach would not be merely to use a word processor
because of the search limitations and the need (as noted) to open
documents for viewing. However, I have a colleague who has done just
this in the classroom, and I think that the person who originally asked
about using computers for this purpose was thinking of instructional
possibilities. One could probably automate a search process for multiple
documents using macros at the system and application levels and sleep on
it (literally), allowing the computer to grind away. Accessing the
internet with word processors is not difficult to do theoretically (I
already do it with the TLG Greek processor I'm writing, as does another
downloadable processor at the Perseus site), and if no word processors
have yet been programmed to do this, I would be surprised if this is not
done in the near future.
Don Wilkins
UC Riverside