From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "aartist" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regex search and replace Date: 23 Oct 2006 06:29:44 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1161610184.824638.297180@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161610830 12008 80.91.229.2 (23 Oct 2006 13:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:40:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 23 15:40:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc02V-00029H-0m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc02U-0003jq-K0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:40:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.228.40.124 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1161610190 6109 127.0.0.1 (23 Oct 2006 13:29:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:29:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.228.40.124; posting-account=bnXY7g0AAADX1jdCvJidxQUPIJp2L58F Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142571 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38192 Archived-At: May be you can use Macro. It could be faster to build , compared to searching or building regexp. Gary Wessle wrote: > Hi > > I am using GNU emacs 21.4.1 and wanting to use regex to do the > following. > > I have few lines in the format > -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 samcar > ... > -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 manham > > I want to end up with > { "sam/car", ..., "man/ham" } > > so my step by step approach is to remove the > " -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 56823 Oct 14 01:32 " > > then to change aaabbb with aaa/bbb. > > then to replace end of line with (", ") > > and maybe by then I will learn enough to finish the task. > > so, playing around with incremental regex search and hoping some body > will help me to learn something mean while. > > thanks