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Problem: Replace all the 225800 occurrences of "~\n" by "\n" (iMac G4 800 Mhz, 1GB ram, 10.4.6): TextWrangler: 30 s (gracefully interruptible) TextMate: who knows? (forced to quit after 15 mn)

What happens if you replace '~$' with '~' instead?

Good idea! I thought using regexp would be slower somehow, but:

Problem: Regexp-replace all the 225800 occurrences of "~$" by "" TextWrangler: no difference TextMate: 4 mn

It seems that the search engine of TextMate performs far better on single lines... Thanks! A.