From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com
On 13.07.2024 18:08, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm reformatting some HTML files containing chapters of the KJV Bible.
> My source follows the practice of italicizing some words.
> I find italics distracting.
>
> These occurrences are consistently of the form
> arbitrary_text
>
> I wish to delete "" and *ASSOCIATED* "".
> Obviously it would not be wise to fully automate the action.
> I wish to find all occurrences of class='add'>arbitrary_text an manually confirm the edit.
>
> In general, is it feasible?
Yes, sure.
Some remarks...
I would use Regular Expressions (RE) for that task.
If sections can be nested in your HTML source then you
cannot do that with plain RE processors.
Since you want to inspect each pattern individually it's
not clear what you mean by "automate" (which I'd interpret as
running a batch job to do the process).
Actually you seem to want a sequential find + replace-or-skip.
In Vim I'd search for the "" pattern. (Assuming no nested .)
Rinse repeat.
That could be (for example) the commands [case 1]
/
d/<\/span>df>
If there's no other <...> inside the span-sections you could
simplify that to [case 2]
/
d2f>
with the opportunity to repeat those search+delete commands
by simply typing n. for every match, like n.n.n.n. or if
you want to skip some like, e.g., n.nnnn.n.nnn.n
With n you get to the next span pattern and . repeats the
last command.
In [case 1] the repeat isn't possible since we have two delete
operations d/<\/span> and df> , but here you can define
macros to trigger the command by a keystroke or just use the
recording function to repeat the once recorded commands.
Sounds complicated? - Maybe. - But if we know your exact data
format we can provide the best command sequence for Vim for
most easy use.
> Can KDE's Kate do it?
Don't know.
Janis
>
> TIA
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