From: "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
To: "Tassilo Horn" <tassilo@member.fsf.org>, emac <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: regex question
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 07:52:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <711a73df0709022352y3b8b5fcch97313927830a7995@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873axw2a3h.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de>
On 02/09/07, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > I.e. I want to retain the group ([A-E])
> > so that the finished text reads 'try text>A
> >
> > Does emacs regex support groups please?
>
> Sure it does.
>
> M-x replace-regexp \(try\)\(\>.\) RET \1 text\2 RET
\1 to insert the text!
Yet another case where emacs can do it, just need to find out how!
Many thanks Tassilo.
No Harald, I'd tried the book and failed.
I'll try the info file now.
Thanks to you and Peter for the response.
regard
--
Dave Pawson
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2007-09-02 18:30 ` regex question Tassilo Horn
2007-09-03 6:52 ` Dave Pawson [this message]
2007-09-02 18:44 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-09-02 17:11 Dave Pawson
2007-09-02 18:31 ` Peter Dyballa
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2003-05-19 14:21 upro
2003-05-19 15:52 ` Danilo Segan
2003-05-19 17:20 ` upro
2003-05-19 16:18 ` Jesper Harder
2003-05-19 16:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-19 19:07 ` Barry Margolin
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