[OS X TeX] Replace \f{x} by \g{x}\h{x}

[Alain Schremmer]

On May 1, 2015, at 11:35 AM, Andrew Miller wrote:

>
>> On May 1, 2015, at 10:43 AM, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com 
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>> On May 1, 2015, at 9:54 AM, Andrew Miller wrote:
>>
>>> If you want to replace \f{stuff} with \g{stuff}\h{stuff} and  
>>> \f{other stuff} with \g{other stuff}\h{other stuff} you could use  
>>> find and replace in BBEdit or TextWrangler with Grep where the  
>>> search string is a regex pattern:
>>>
>>> \\f\{([^\}]*)\}
>>>
>>> and the replacement is
>>>
>>> \\g{\1}\\h{\1}
>>>
>>> The pattern ([^\}]*) captures the content inside the curly braces  
>>> and the \1 pastes it in your \g and \h commands.
>>>
>>> Grep needs to be checked in the Find dialog for this to work.
>>
>> (1) I duly noted that my question was ill-posed.
>>
>> (2) TextWrangler did what you said and, of course, it did exactly  
>> what I wanted.
>>
>> (3) My question remains: would you know of a tutorial that this  
>> grep-challenged person could learn from instead of asking off-topic  
>> questions? (Not that I do not appreciate not having to learn grep.)
>>
>> (4) In any case, this (old) person is immensely grateful for the  
>> very large amount of time he will be saving using this grep and  
>> Multi-File Search to correct something idiotic he did repeatedly  
>> across many long files.
>>
>> Very best regards,
>> —schremmer
>
> Whenever I have a question on regular expressions or grep I usually  
> look through:
> http://www.regular-expressions.info/
> There are tutorials, examples and reference info.

I shall look into it.
Once again, very grateful regards
--schremmer

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