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> From: Marco Gidde <marco.gidde@tiscali.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 05 May 2004 13:45:22 +0200
> 
> And what if the modifications you want to make are not specific to
> lines but to paragraphs? I think that would be a problem with sed.

No, it isn't.  Sed has a block construct, something like this:

/FOO/,/BAR/ {
  s,FOOBAR,WHATEVER,
}

This replaces FOOBAR with WHATEVER in the range of lines between the
line that matches FOO and the line that matches BAR.