From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Then how to replace all my $$ ... $$ to \[ \] through search and replace? Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:05:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87bpzuk5rc.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <48a540fe$0$11744$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218791186 8642 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2008 09:06:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:06:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 15 11:07:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KTvH8-0003nd-IW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:07:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTvGC-00045E-13 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:06:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KTvFe-0003uc-01 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:05:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KTvFc-0003tu-V2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:05:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45972 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTvFc-0003tf-Cc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43963 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KTvFb-0000ww-Hj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KTvFW-0007EH-Ea for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:05:34 +0000 Original-Received: from p54af1f0c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.175.31.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:05:34 +0000 Original-Received: from tassilo by p54af1f0c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:05:34 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af1f0c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VbuaDERk0pHhTmrspJqv1x5IwJo= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56661 Archived-At: Ralf Angeli writes: Hi Ralf, >> M-x query-replace-regexp RET \$\$\(.+\)\$\$ RET \\[\1\\] RET > > This won't work because `.' does not match a newline. Ok, but at least it works for oneliners. > Using `[^$]' instead should do it. Right, that's better. Bye, Tassilo -- [Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. -- Neal Stephenson, _In the Beginning was the Command Line_