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Old 12-06-2013, 01:46 AM   #4
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The calibre editor is currently available as a beta, and usable via the command line:
Code:
calibre-debug -t /path/to/file
It offers global undo, which will undo Replace All (something Sigil emphatically does NOT do, @Doitsu):

(from a few weeks ago)
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Yes, although, I have already started building the shell that does the various tasks I spoke about earlier. It's already better than Sigil in one respect -- it has support for global undo/redo, so any operation you do can be undone, including file renames, global search and replace and so on. Not to mention that it works for both azw3 and epub2.
and has already duplicated much of Sigil's functionality, to the point where Kovid has said:

(Exactly three hours ago)
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
@user_none: Will do. It will be a while before ebook-tweak reaches feature parity with Sigil. I will be making a public release of ebook-tweak in a week or two as I think it is useable and useful already. I have never used Sigil myself, but I think the major bits that are missing are spell check, clips, error checking and a book view editor (which likely will never get implemented)
Kovid is also actively maintaining all parts of calibre, unlike Sigil which currently has only a project manager, but no one interested in actively developing.
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