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* replace regex takes long
@ 2006-04-15 21:29 Gary Wessle
  2006-04-15 22:36 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: Gary Wessle @ 2006-04-15 21:29 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi

I have a file with data in the form
date<spac>name<space>age<space>higth<newline>
the <space> are 5 to 20 spaces, so I want to replace them with just
one <space> between fields. so I did
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? and
for how much longer?

thanks

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2006-04-15 23:09   ` Gary Wessle
2006-04-15 23:35     ` Gary Wessle
2006-04-16  6:27       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-16 10:17       ` Peter Dyballa
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2006-04-16 11:53         ` Gary Wessle
2006-04-16 14:01       ` Stefan Monnier

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