[Zope] Search and replace

Max Møller Rasmussen maxm@normik.dk
Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:59:26 +0100


From: Martin Winkler [mailto:marwin98@gmx.net]

>Another thought: If Zope would offer s/r, then a bunch of programmers
>would stick in their bad behaviour _not_ implementing <dtml-var>'s, because
>"it's easy and effortless to replace everything from 'Copyright 2000' to
>'Copyright 2001'". But think of it: Maybe this string is correct somewhere 
>and SHOULD stay the same. So s/r is at least inefficient, because you'd 
>have to check every file whether Zope should replace or not.


try and do this correctly:

<dtml-in customers>
    The customer is: <dtml-var customer>
</dtml-in>

Search: "customer"
Replace: "buyer"

Uhhhh ... can of worms

Max M