From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Help with query-replace-regular expression
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:45:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85hczeh5yh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1157980933.187942.311270@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com
jade_lindquist@hotmail.com writes:
> I'm struggling with emacs' implementation of regexp. I'd certainly
> appreciate some pointers.
>
> I'd like to replace lines like: /*#midp1_0#*///<editor-fold>
>
> with:
>
> //#if midp1_0
>
> the phrase midp1_0 could be debug or some other alpha plus _ sequence
>
> Thus I've tried M-x query-tags-regexp:
> from: \\/\\*\\#\\([a-zA-Z_]+\\).*
> to: //#if \\1
Good grief. You are using string syntax and escape far too much.
Just replace
/\*#\([a-zA-Z]+\).*
with
//#if \1
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-11 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-11 13:22 Help with query-replace-regular expression jade_lindquist
2006-09-11 13:45 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-09-11 14:01 ` Jim Ottaway
2006-09-11 15:37 ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-09-11 15:57 ` Jim Ottaway
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