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[George Gratzer]

Thank you all for your suggestions. In BBEdit, this works for me:


\\ga\((.+)\)


replaced by


\\ga \1


GREAT!

George


> On Dec 18, 2015, at 8:15 PM, Claus Gerhardt <claus.gerhardt at uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> 
> In BBEdit I used the search string
> 
> alpha(.+)\((.+)\)
> 
> to be replaced by
> 
> alpha\1 \2
> 
> Note the space between\1 and \2.
> 
> Claus
> 
> 
>> On 18 Dec 2015, at 23:05, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> My lattice book is almost ready. For maps I use functional notation:
>> 
>> \alpha(x)
>> 
>> etc. I’m thinking of changing it to a simple prefix:
>> 
>> \alpha x 
>> 
>> This is easy to do, except that there are a few thousand instances of
>> 
>> \alpha'(x)
>> 
>> \alpha(x_2)
>> 
>> and so on.
>> 
>> How could I get the job done the best way? 
>> 
>> George
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