Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

[Lee <ler762@gmail.com>]

Hi,

> > 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.

I guess it depends on what you're used to.  I don't think this bit is
overly complex .. your opinion might be different

$ cat /tmp/z
cat /dev/null > txtfile.html
for v in $(seq 1 12); do echo '<span class="verse" id="V'$v'"> text
text text </span>' >> txtfile.html; done
sed -Ei.bak 's@<span class="verse"
id="V[[:digit:]]+">([^<]*)</span>@<sup>\1</sup>@g' txtfile.html

$ bash z

$ cat txtfile*
<sup> text text text </sup>
<sup> text text text </sup>
<sup> text text text </sup>
<sup> text text text </sup>
<sup> text text text </sup>
<sup> text text text </sup>
<sup> text text text </sup>
<sup> text text text </sup>
<sup> text text text </sup>
<sup> text text text </sup>
<sup> text text text </sup>
<sup> text text text </sup>
<span class="verse" id="V1"> text text text </span>
<span class="verse" id="V2"> text text text </span>
<span class="verse" id="V3"> text text text </span>
<span class="verse" id="V4"> text text text </span>
<span class="verse" id="V5"> text text text </span>
<span class="verse" id="V6"> text text text </span>
<span class="verse" id="V7"> text text text </span>
<span class="verse" id="V8"> text text text </span>
<span class="verse" id="V9"> text text text </span>
<span class="verse" id="V10"> text text text </span>
<span class="verse" id="V11"> text text text </span>
<span class="verse" id="V12"> text text text </span>

$

Regards,
Lee