At least p9p acme has multiline tags. Personally, I prefer 2-1 chord complicated or frequent stuff onto Edit command

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Kostarev Ilya

On 27 Oct 2014 at 18:48:10, Ingo Krabbe (ikrabbe.ask@gmail.com) wrote:

but you can't do this on a acme headline. So how would you apply such multiline commands to a range you marked in the buffer?

> Edit {
> s/^/\[/
> s/\:\ /\]/
> }
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Eduardo Alvarez <astrochelonian@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello, everyone,
>>
>> I'm in the process of learning acme via Russ Cox's p9p port. Recently, I
>> found
>> myself editing some text to use with markdown, and needed to make more
>> than one
>> modification to a list. I wanted to know if it's possible to give the Edit
>> command more than one argument. For example, I found myself needing to
>> replace
>> colons with a close bracket (]), and inserting an open bracket at the
>> beginning
>> of the line. So I did this:
>>
>> Edit s/^/\[/
>> Edit s/\:\ /\]/
>>
>> And I was hoping to combine these into a single line, so, for example:
>>
>> Edit s/^/\[/ s/\:\ /\]/
>> (Not sure if escaping was necessary, but I was playing it safe)
>>
>> Doing exactly what I did above resulted in the error
>>
>> "Edit: newline expected (saw f)"
>>
>> So that's obviously not it. But I'm not sure if it's at all possible.
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>> --
>> Eduardo Alvarez
>>
>> "Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum"
>> -- Rincewind The Wizzard
>>