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Re: regexp/emacs selective replace
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harven |
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Re: regexp/emacs selective replace |
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:24:57 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
m121212 <m121212@mailinator.com> writes:
> Thanks for your repsonses! The solution for me in the end was just to record
> a keyboard macro. Do you use a particular guide for regexps? Also, could
> you explain this part: {[^}]*} *$ RET ?
{[^}]*} *$ means
{ first an opening brace,
[^}]* then any number of characters that are not a closing brace
} then a closing brace,
* any number of spaces,
$ and the line ends there
RET RETURN to proceed
This matches {xxx}
but not {xxx} \end{center} because the line does not end after the brace.
See http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RegularExpression
Re: regexp/emacs selective replace, Xah Lee, 2009/11/27