From: harven <harven@free.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regexp/emacs selective replace
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:24:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vjmyep2.fsf@ergodik.univ-brest.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.11454.1259150311.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
m121212 <m121212@mailinator.com> writes:
> Thanks for your repsonses! The solution for me in the end was just to record
> a keyboard macro. Do you use a particular guide for regexps? Also, could
> you explain this part: {[^}]*} *$ RET ?
{[^}]*} *$ means
{ first an opening brace,
[^}]* then any number of characters that are not a closing brace
} then a closing brace,
* any number of spaces,
$ and the line ends there
RET RETURN to proceed
This matches {xxx}
but not {xxx} \end{center} because the line does not end after the brace.
See http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RegularExpression
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-25 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.11424.1259102060.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-25 1:30 ` regexp/emacs selective replace Barry Margolin
2009-11-25 8:15 ` harven
2009-11-25 11:58 ` m121212
[not found] ` <mailman.11454.1259150311.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-25 12:11 ` Joost Kremers
2009-11-25 12:36 ` harven
2009-11-25 12:44 ` Joost Kremers
2009-11-25 12:24 ` harven [this message]
2009-11-25 12:32 ` Joost Kremers
2009-11-26 19:20 ` Xah Lee
2009-11-23 13:41 m121212
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