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From: "Peter Milliken" <peter.milliken@gmail.com>
To: sharky <landhaj@yahoo.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Search and replace enclosing \commands{word}
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:53:43 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <791153ba0901111153y3ac1baa1idd4b70108dd281f6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <572f9fcb-b5df-4923-88bf-53658b82f09f@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com>

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Yes, read the help sections on regular expression search and replace. You
can "capture" the text between the {}'s and keep it without losing it (read
up on submatches).


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:31 AM, sharky <landhaj@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm using emacs to write LaTeX code, which means I have a lot of stuff
> that looks like this:
>
> \section{Headline}
>
> Blah blah yada yada \textit{italic yada} and the yada yada \textbf
> {bold yada} and then \myspecial{yada}.
>
> You get the picture. I wanna search and delete the enclosing thingy,
> like so:
>
> \myspecial{yada} -----> yada
>
> Is there a way to do this in emacs?
>
> Please help!
>
> /Sharky
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-11 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-11 14:31 Search and replace enclosing \commands{word} sharky
2009-01-11 15:25 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-01-11 19:53 ` Peter Milliken [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.4573.1231703627.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-17 20:20   ` sharky

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