I think the syntax is pcrepattern[1] though I may very well be wrong. I definitely agree to the strength being that you know your editor. I suppose scripting w

I think the syntax is pcrepattern[1] though I may very well be wrong. I definitely agree to the strength being that you know your editor. I suppose scripting would be hard to do without knowing the editor. I artificially applied vim as the editor because that was what you used in the example. I very recently found vimcat[2] from another thread and thought that something similar could be done with this. I guess it may not be much more effective than just using sed and a for loop in <insert shell here> though. [1] http://linux.die.net/man/3/pcrepattern http://linux.die.net/man/3/pcrepattern [2] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4325 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4325