Re: Question about LocateLineMatching

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Brendan Strejcek wrote:
>When I use LocateLineMatching, I always ensure there is something
>there to find. For example, a common task for me when I edit files is
>maintaining a left-hand-side/right-hand-side pair (that is, setting a
>variable and making sure that the line is unique). I have some m4 macros
>which make heavy use of LocateLineMatching and allows me to use the
>self-invented SetVariableToValue(LHS,RHS) construct in my edits. This
>allows me to deal with most config files (other than ini style).

That sounds very familiar :-)

>Also note that you can use CatchAbort and ResetSearch to recover from
>editfiles aborts.

I have had a lot of problems recently with "ResetSearch 1" not actually
resetting the search to the start of the file.  Have you seen this
behaviour?

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