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Comment by crazygringo

> Regular expressions is a great tool for searching patterns in text. But I always found it unnatural for text editing.

The entire purpose of this project seems to hinge on this assertion, but there isn't a single example.

I don't understand what makes regex unnatural for editing? What is meant by editing? Why do people struggle with groups?

There are lots of examples of the syntax for this project, but why is it better than regular regex?

If there were a few examples showing "here's the vanilla regex version, here's my version, here's why my version makes this easier" I might be able to understand this project.

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