Merging LinkTypes?

Agents, Actions and Automation
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Is there a way or a strategy to merge linkTypes?
I noticed I created (by mistake or via incremental formalization) that I have several links that now, have virtually the same meaning. I would like to merge into one.

Example:

isRelatedTo
isSimilarTo
isAssociatedWith

I would like to combine them all into one: isRelatedTo (which is now my standard)
I realize I could manually change the links but sense this may be a recurring problem as my documents get larger.

I plan to use a test tbx case.

Thanks
Tom

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The current method for this is to use and agent with linkedTo or linkedFrom to to find the 'bad links, and an agent action with linkToOriginal or linkFromOriginal to make a link of the correct type then unlinkToOriginal or unlinkFromOriginal to remove the link of the wrong type.

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This can also be done fairly easily with search and replace in the XML.

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This is something where the old pre-v6+ are Paths dialog helped

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It makes me wonder if these are affordances to re-apply via the Hyperbolic view which is innately link-based.

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Thanks MarkB and MarkA. I really like the idea of editing via BBEdit. I did not think of it!
Easy to do, especially with the Search and Replace command.

Another way, I worked around it was to use the AB to query the links in question, then one at a time, rename the links

I really like the old method as MarkA mentions especially for Hyperbolic view.

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Here is Michael Beckers youtube video on LinkTypes: Tinderbox Training Video 51- Linking With Tinderbox where he demonstrates how to use them, for anyone interested.

Nice Job MichaelB!
Tom