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by magicalhippo 2255 days ago
A good illustration of this is the linked TC regex[1], which can be implemented in Notepad++ or similar.

Just because you can hit "Replace all" a bunch of times to run the TC "regex code", transforming some input to some output, doesn't in itself mean you can make Notepad++ do something weird.

[1]: https://github.com/Tegmen/RegEx-Brainfuck-Interpreter