Ability to execute a search/replace n times

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pwdiener
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Ability to execute a search/replace n times

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It would be useful to be able to specify how many times you want a search replacement to be carried out. I believe Brief used to do that, and I recall using it fairly regularly. I know I can apply it to just a marked area, which comes close, but it leaves the marked area in place. This makes it more difficult to change 10 lines to one value, the next 10 to another, etc. I could probably write a macro to do this, but it'd be nice (and probably smoother in operation) to have it built-in.

Bill Diener
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