[SPAM] Re: need help with reinplace

[Helmut K. C. Tessarek]

Hi Ryan,

On 2018-11-03 01:45, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> That's in the Tcl documentation:

I think you are missing my point. I don't really know Tcl, thus I would
have never thought about using `set reinplace_cmd` and or any other
workaround you Tcl experts know.

So why not add a paragraph like this to reinplace:

Since the Tcl way of how regexes are used/interpreted (or whatnot) in
reinplace truly sucks (and is fucked up), here's a way to use a regex as
it used in any other language.

set reinplace_cmd [subst -nobackslashes -nocommands
{s/bad/awesome/g}]
reinplace -E $reinplace_cmd FILE

The text in () brackets is optional.
Of course you can remove the sarcasm, but I think it has a nice touch.
Anyway, you get the idea.

Boom, all of a sudden people who read the documentation know how to use
a regex with Portfiles. Isn't that wonderful?

Cheers,
 K. C.

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