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DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> schrieb am 19. July 2012:

> > 1. search and replace with sed or ? on the file Board.pcb to replace
> > XYZ123.fp with XYZ123_new.fp  
> 
> Using a plugin that either does a regex search, or better, just
> operates on "all selected alements".

IMHO, this should have have a firm place in the main code -- both in
gschem and in PCB. Powerful search and replace is one of the few
features I really miss since I left protel99SE. 

Plugins more likely than not bit rot and go away, when its creator stops
caring actively for it.

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