From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replace and delete Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:54:47 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FAFC2D7.9060606@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068483640 5380 80.91.224.253 (10 Nov 2003 17:00:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 10 18:00:36 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AJFP2-0001fL-00 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:00:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AJGLj-0005fU-Fw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:01:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1068483292 51054871 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118061 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14000 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14000 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