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To:	arnold@cc.gatech.edu (Arnold Robbins)
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Subject: Re: a possibly simple question 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jun 1993 10:15:34 EDT."
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Date:	Thu, 17 Jun 1993 10:29:21 -0400
From:	Neil Weisenfeld <weisen@alw.nih.gov>


I'm sure that someone out there has a better solution, but if you can train
your ed fingers to forget the backslash before the parenthesis, you've got it
made.  Sam has an s command, too.

With dot set to:

  this is just to say "hello goodbye" to you.

we can do:

  s/"([^"]*)"/``\1''/

and get:

  p
  this is just to say ``hello goodbye'' to you.


Regards,
Neil