From: Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>
To: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mass conversion of specific items
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 13:34:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y2ltxs5r.fsf@x201.butler.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rjlmtc0.fsf@skimble.plus.com> (Sharon Kimble's message of "Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:04:31 +0100")
Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:
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> I'm hoping that someone can help with this problem I have.
>
> I have several org-mode files which have some specific formatting in
> individual items, specifically -
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> \uuline{foo}
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> This gives a double-underling of 'foo' when exported to latex and built
> into a pdf file.
>
> I'm now in the situation when the double underlining also needs to be
> italicised, and in org-mode its showing as -
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> /\uuline{foo}/
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> This gives a double-underling and italicised of 'foo' when exported to
> latex and built into a pdf file.
>
> I would like to change about 150+ 'foos' and possibly using
> 'replace-string' to do it. Also, 'foo' is lots of different words which
> includes spaces between some of them. So how can I do it please?
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.
Sharon,
M-x regexp-builder RET
will give you a window that let's you build a regular expression
(regexp) interactively. When I enter
\\\\uuline{[^}]+}
it finds both strings in your email (I'm using Gnus). Alternatively, you
can use
M-x search-forward-regexp RET
to find the occurences of your regexp.
You don't make precise what you want to change, so I cannot say if it is
worth trying to craft a regexp replacement and use
M-x query-replace-regexp
HTH,
Leo
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