Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>]

On 06/28/2024 10:23 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:53:50 +0000
> Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> wrote:
>
> > $ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's,<span class="verse"
> > id="V'$v'">,<sup>,g' ./*.html; done
> >
> > Be sure to have a copy in case something goes wrong; and diff(1) a few
> > files afterwards to make sure that the result is as you intended.
>
> Having done that (or similar), don't forget to change the relevant
> </span> closing tags to </sup> closing tags. However, there may be
> other </span> closing tags you don't want to change because they close
> other <span> tags we haven't seen.

Chuckle ;} The appropriate "</span>" to be replaced by "</sup>" is 
ALWAYS preceded by "#160;" .

> So you may prefer to use regexes as
> Murphy intended, handling both the opening and closing tags at the same
> time, leaving the intervening text intact.

In this particular case I suspect it would become overly complex.
I've already discovered that the order of edits is important.