turma  0.1
About: Turma recursively search (and replace) for text in files given by a pattern. Operates also on blocks (or paragraphs) of text.
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turma Documentation

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README 
This is T.U.R.M.A, Text Utils w/ Recursive MAmbo jumbo operations.
Turma allows you to recursively search (and replace) for text in files
given by a pattern (i.e *.sch). It's main advantage (or feature, if you like)
is the way it works: just great. Hmm, I'm kiddin' now. Seriously, turma brings
you a great facility: it operates on blocks (or paragraphs) of text, not lines
or words. You may find it useful when you have to replace large blocks of text.
O, it has a GTK interface, so you don't have to write scripts to use it.
Just point & click, copy & paste. (did I mention it has a clipboard pane?)

Let me give you a short example:
-let's say you have many files containing the following text:
	...
	aaaaaaaehe
	egeeccccc
	...
and now you want to replace the paragraph above with
	...
	aaaaaaabbb
	bbbbccccc
	...
turma allows you to select
	ehe
	egee
and replace it with
	bbb
	bbbb
just as easy as copy&paste. Don't you believe me?
Give it a try! You'll see I'm right.

Another (useful) example would be: you have to replace the licence
and copyright notice in more than 1000 files located in a single directory
(including subdirectories). You have 4 options:
1. don't do it (ETA: 0 sec)
2. one by one  (ETA: many hours)
3. make a perl/awk+sed/whatever script to do it (ETA: I wish I didn't know)
4. use turma (ETA: 30 seconds)

Visit http://vbd.go.ro/software/turma to get the latest version.
Only if you really want. We don't give a shit, anyway.