[CLUE-Talk] Multiline Regex

[Timothy Klein]

Hey,

I am LaTeX-ifying a large text file (430 pages in the PDF/DVI).  It has a 
glossary that makes up the bulk of these pages.

It is using the convention of _example_ to signal the meaning of old English 
words in each entry.  So I want to find all these underscore pairs and change
them to \textit{example}.  It would be super easy if all of them were only a 
line or less.  But a lot of them span multiple lines, like _a longer
multiline example_.

I kludged VIM in to giving me a multiline regex to sourround the glossary 
headwords into paragraph sectioning, but I am having no luck with this one.

Anyone have any ideas?

I found a sed script on the web to do something similar to this, but I know 
nothing about sed, so can't implement it without a lot of new learning.  Perl 
can probably do it, but then I'd have to remember Perl.  Is there a way to 
make VIM do mulitilne regex?  I haven't found much on Google.

Tim
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