[Alpine-info] Re: Replace-All

[Beartooth]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:00:30 -0800, Eduardo Chappa wrote:


> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

> 

> :) This may be a silly question, but why is it that when in the

> composer, :) if I want to do a replace-all, instead of it actually

> "replacing all", :) it does a one-by-one replace and prompts me every

> time?

> 

> That's the design. Remember that the original design is for novices, and

> normally replacing all instantly may have unwanted consequences.

> However, I agree that there should be a way to override this behavior,

> at least on a case by case basis.


	Unless I'm misremembering frequent and very recent experience, 
the spellchecker (I took the default) does that : hitting "r" replaces 
the present instance, while "R" replaces it and all following.

	Couldn't pico do the same? (Does nano?)

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