convert PO to JSON - macro or script with regex match including newline in dot character about docs HOT 2 CLOSED

https://askubuntu.com/questions/20414/find-and-replace-text-within-a-file-using-commands
and
https://stackoverflow.com/a/45981809
offer some guidance

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Success with jEdit!!
The resulting macro is at https://github.com/patogit/lime-docs/blob/testing-JSON/macros/po-2-json-transwikinet.bsh

It does all the automated search and replace that I could figure out. In the resulting file, I have to add the final brackets and add numbers to untranslated items.

1. \# Translation of LibreMesh(.|\n)*?Language:  -> {"
2. \\n"\n"X-Generator.*?(.|\n)*?\n#: -> ": {\n#:
3. msgid(.|\n)*?msgstr -> \n
4. #: 0[1-9].en.txt:.*?\n\n -> \n
5. (\n){3} -> \n
6. \n " -> ,\n"booklet-01-paragraph-000
7. \)\\n -> ": "
8. \\n ->  $0 

Hooray for powerful text editors!

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