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I saw that post too, and couldn't make much sense of it either, but I don't think it quite addresses the same thing.

I've since found a sort of workaround using an external macro utility (Key Text) which lets you compile a macro as a series of keystrokes, e.g.: {Ctrl c}{F5}{Ctrl v}. But for some ...

I want to record a macro to embed (thousands of) footnotes.

In the documents the the footnote number markers are at the correct locations in the text, and the correspondingly numbered text of the footnotes are at the end of the file.

So I want to record a macro that searches for a footnote marker ...

Well I gave WildEdit a try, and it's all there in the Help!

Suppose I should've gone there first, and saved you some trouble. (But, in mitigation, I didn't expect WildEdit's functionality to be different from TextPad.)

Thanks again.

I haven't used WildEdit (it seemed to me that a utility like BK ReplacEm, which is free and can do long lists of replacements on multiple files, makes more sense.

But it seems I should give WildEdit a try. Will download the trial version immediately!

Thanks man, that will certainly save some frustration.

(I'm surprised, though, that an option for non-greedy search or something along the lines of [^"string"]*, where everything between quotes is excluded, isn't standard fare in REs.)

However, if the line contains two instances of text between <startcode> and <endcode>, e.g.:

<startcode> text <endcode> blah blah <startcode > more text <endcode>

this greedy search will find the entire line instead of the individual coded portions. That's why I'm looking for a "not <endcode ...

I want to find everything between a start and end code, e.g.:
<startcode> - whole lot of text including angle brackets etc - <endcode>

Of course if I search for: <startcode>[^<endcode>]*<endcode>
it's going to stop at any of the characters between [ and ]

How do I make it exclude only the entire ...