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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Regexp replacement
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:45:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85iri5nzt0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: C1680282.130%jgjimdai_p@yahoo.com

Jim Dai <jgjimdai_p@yahoo.com> writes:

> I would like to delete \redtext{long text} with "long text" being kept.
> I have any instances in a file, with "long text" varying that may include
> other latex symbols like _ $. (assume there are not any {} pairs inside the
> text.
>
> How can I use regexp replacement to achieve the desired changes?

M-x query-replace-regexp RET \\redtext{\([^}]*\)} RET \1 RET

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-27 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-27 22:37 Regexp replacement Jim Dai
2006-10-27 22:45 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-10-28  1:16   ` Jim Dai
2006-10-28  7:09     ` David Kastrup
2006-10-28  7:36       ` Ralf Angeli
2006-10-28 19:11   ` Jim Dai
2006-10-28 23:44     ` David Kastrup
2006-10-29 20:10       ` Jim Dai

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