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From: Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: replace regex takes long
Date: 16 Apr 2006 09:09:07 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bgexwq4.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.456.1145140624.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 15.04.2006 um 23:29 schrieb Gary Wessle:
> 
> > M-x query-replace-regex <RET> +<RET><ONE SPACE>
> > the file size is 4162111 with 77000 lines on PentiumIII 500, it has
> > been 10 minutes so I opened another emacs processor to write and
> > post this.
> > is there a problem with my command and why it is taking that long?
> 
> Yes, because the command needs your co-operation. And if you don't
> press "yes" no change will be made.

if fact I forget to say that I did hit ! which means "replace all"

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-15 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-15 21:29 replace regex takes long Gary Wessle
2006-04-15 22:36 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.456.1145140624.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-15 23:09   ` Gary Wessle [this message]
2006-04-15 23:35     ` Gary Wessle
2006-04-16  6:27       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-16 10:17       ` Peter Dyballa
2006-04-16 17:11         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <mailman.473.1145168872.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-16 11:53         ` Gary Wessle
2006-04-16 14:01       ` Stefan Monnier

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