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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Utilizing Regexp (or something else) to replace an arbitrary string length of the same character with the same string length of another character.
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:23:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD399B7-4291-495F-A17A-5C3D604E1047@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c115fd3c0811271224y3260d26eo4345c43ab141dff8@mail.gmail.com>


Am 27.11.2008 um 21:24 schrieb Tim Visher:

> The issue is that I use the characters I want to replace
> at other locations where I don't want them replaced.

You can mark a region. This will restrict substitutions to happen  
only inside the marked region.

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Greetings

   Pete

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-27 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1299.1227715545.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-26 17:25 ` Utilizing Regexp (or something else) to replace an arbitrary string length of the same character with the same string length of another character Xah Lee
2008-11-27 20:24   ` Tim Visher
2008-11-27 23:23     ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1392.1227828233.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-28  0:01       ` Andreas Politz
2008-11-28  1:01     ` tyler
2008-11-26 14:41 Tim Visher
2008-11-26 16:31 ` Peter Dyballa

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