* replace and delete
@ 2003-11-10 10:37 Herbert Fritsch
2003-11-10 15:57 ` Dan Anderson
2003-11-10 16:54 ` Kevin Rodgers
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Herbert Fritsch @ 2003-11-10 10:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
First I want to delete empty lines. I don't get it.
Second I want to replace/delete words in a line except the beginning of the
line "ABC*:". Please help me.
Herbert
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* Re: replace and delete
2003-11-10 10:37 replace and delete Herbert Fritsch
@ 2003-11-10 15:57 ` Dan Anderson
2003-11-10 16:54 ` Kevin Rodgers
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From: Dan Anderson @ 2003-11-10 15:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Try M-% . It'll search and replace and ask you yes/no to delete it.
-Dan
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 05:37, Herbert Fritsch wrote:
> First I want to delete empty lines. I don't get it.
> Second I want to replace/delete words in a line except the beginning of the
> line "ABC*:". Please help me.
>
> Herbert
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* Re: replace and delete
2003-11-10 10:37 replace and delete Herbert Fritsch
2003-11-10 15:57 ` Dan Anderson
@ 2003-11-10 16:54 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-10 21:29 ` Herbert Fritsch
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2003-11-10 16:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
Herbert Fritsch wrote:
> First I want to delete empty lines. I don't get it.
M-<
M-x delete-matching-lines RET ^$RET
> Second I want to replace/delete words in a line except the beginning of the
> line "ABC*:".
If "ABC*:" is literal text, and you want to delete all the text after it:
M-x replace-regexp RET ^\(ABC\*:\).* RET \1 RET
If it's a regular expression, just use * instead of \*.
If you want to replace the text with something else, use \1 something_else
instead of just \1.
--
Kevin Rodgers
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* Re: replace and delete
2003-11-10 16:54 ` Kevin Rodgers
@ 2003-11-10 21:29 ` Herbert Fritsch
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Herbert Fritsch @ 2003-11-10 21:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> If it's a regular expression, just use *
use ".*"...
But you helped me a lot. Thank you Kevin!
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