Perhaps a keyboard macro?

dZ.

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On Dec 30, 2008, at 03:07, Peter Anderson wrote:

> Hi! I hope everyone is having a good holiday season.
>
> I have an on-going nag that someone might be able to help me with. I
> use
> EditPlus for almost all my text "processing" including coding,
> scripting
> and word processing (I use HTML as my preferred word processing
> document
> format). I have this obsession about quotation marks. I would like all
> my quotation marks to be Decimal (Dec) 39 (HTML ') for single
> quotes
> and Dec 34 (HTML " or ") for double quotes.
>
> If I copy text from say websites more often than not quotation marks
> are
> "curly" quotes -- a Dec 145 (HTML ‘ or ‘) and Dec 146 (HTML
> ’ or ’) for single quotes and Dec 147 (HTML “ or
> “) and Dec 148 (HTML ” or ”) for double quotes.
>
> To date I use a tiresome "find and replace" sequence for the four
> different types of quotation marks. I would like to know if there is
> any
> alternative. Years ago I used a different text editor that, I think,
> was
> configured to change quotation marks back to simple ASCII when the
> file
> was saved. I don't think EditPlus can do this but is there anything
> else
> I can do to automate this substitution process?
>
> All suggestions will be gratefully received.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
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> *Peter Anderson*
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> conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in
> the
> introduction of a new order of things—Niccolo Machiavelli, /The
> Prince/,
> ch. 6
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