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From: Malte Spiess <i1tnews@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: query-replace-regexp ... "Invalid repacement string '\.'"
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:17:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d59k2z4u.fsf@trick.ulm.malte.spiess> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85zmcol9ke.fsf@lola.goethe.zz

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> "s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca> writes:
>
>> Hi.  I was trying to make it easy on myself using q-r-r replacing
>> '[^\]\.' (not a backslash, followed by a literal dot/period) with the
>> string (sans quotes) '\.', essentially "escaping" every dot/period in
>> the file.  "M-x query-replace" had no trouble with it but M-x
>> query-replace-regexp refused, spouting the error message in the
>> subject.
>>
>> So how do you replace '.' with '\.' in emacs?  Googling's
>> (groups.google.com) turned up nothing useful (interesting, but not
>> useful).  I tried variations of '\\\.' (literal backslash followed by
>> literal period) to no effect.
>>
>> Suggestions or pointers welcome.  Thanks.
>
> M-x query-replace-regexp RET \. RET \\. RET

That would not work if there already is a "\" in the text. Your other
proposal is much better IMHO. (I think he does not want "\." to be
replaced with "\\.".)

I guess you just wanted to describe the general concept, this is just to
prevent confusion for other readers.

Greetings

Malte

      reply	other threads:[~2006-09-25  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-24 23:56 query-replace-regexp ... "Invalid repacement string '\.'" s. keeling
2006-09-25  6:33 ` Malte Spiess
2006-09-25  7:02   ` David Kastrup
     [not found]   ` <85vencl9ar.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
2006-09-25  7:14     ` Malte Spiess
2006-09-25  6:55 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-25  7:17   ` Malte Spiess [this message]

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