GREP find/replace
I’m so totally stoked about this beta. I have spent a couple hours poking around, and I can say that this beta is further along than I expected. I have high hopes that this will in time replace Indesign for us (a small publisher), and it looks well on track.
Among several features that wowed right away and other "missing features" that I can work around, the one thing that stood out for me is the lack of GREP searches. In Indesign, I have a small series of GREP searches that I have saved ov
Well "grep" is a program not a shell command or the like here, it's initially developed by Ken Thompson for AT&T UNIX.
The term "grep" stands for...
global/regular expression/print [g/re/p] (see the Gnu grep manual, 4 Usage -> QA point 16. for reference )
or
global search for a regular expression and print out matched lines
...and stems from the old Unix ed line based texteditor (similar to ex and edlin).
Regular expressions have been and are widely used