Converting "execute" to "execute by name"

[sthompson]

I'm looking at a very large and complicated profile that is hard to maintain. I'd like to break it up into logical units that I put in separate profiles and then "include" each of those into a master profile. However there are a small set of commands that are executed by many, many other commands. Obviously I'd like to convert all references to these commands to "execute by name" so that these commands do not need to be copied into each "sub profile." But I see no way to do a batch conversion. Is there a way? If not, then this is a feature request. Seems like a small Python script applied to the VAP file could do it, but that's beyond my programming knowledge, and the format of a VAP file is not very transparent to me.