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Re: replace-regexp not working?
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Jesper Harder |
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Re: replace-regexp not working? |
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Date: |
Tue, 22 Jul 2003 02:21:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Sanford Selznick <see-message@for.real.address.com> writes:
> I have a file open (input.txt) and I'm trying to replace all "x" or "y"
> characters with a string, say "12".
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> So I M-x replace-regexp RET (x|y) RET 12 RET
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> And nothing happens. The cursor is at the beginning of the buffer.
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> What am I doing wrong?
`|' needs to be quoted. Soo you should do:
M-x replace-regexp RET x\|y RET 12 RET