From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: some vi equivalents please?
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:53:20 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ej1whibz.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a27b3eaa-e29d-44e7-b1f4-86e32f5bbbc4@s1g2000prg.googlegroups.com
rustom (2008-10-31 08:08 -0700) wrote:
> 1. In vi I can delete a line that contains a <pat> with
> :g/<pat>/d
>
> How is this done in emacs?
M-x flush-lines <RET> REGEXP <RET>
See
(info "(emacs) Other Repeating Search")
or
C-h f flush-lines RET
> 2. match-variables:
> If I want to remove everything after the second : (in a file that has
> 3 fields separated with two :'s)
> I do
> :s/\(.*\):\(.*\):.*/\1 \2
> How do I do that in emacs?
M-x replace-regexp <RET> \(.*\):\(.*\):.* <RET> \1 \2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-31 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 15:08 some vi equivalents please? rustom
2008-10-31 15:01 ` Toby Cubitt
2008-11-01 13:32 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-11-01 18:47 ` Reiner Steib
2008-10-31 15:53 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2008-10-31 15:59 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-31 16:01 ` Parker, Matthew
2008-10-31 16:53 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-10-31 17:22 ` Joost Kremers
2008-10-31 17:34 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-10-31 22:49 ` Xah
[not found] ` <mailman.2577.1225468814.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-01 14:45 ` rustom
2008-11-01 14:52 ` rustom
2008-11-01 16:40 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-11-01 17:07 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.2646.1225559243.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-02 15:30 ` rustom
2008-11-02 16:12 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.2710.1225642363.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-03 7:19 ` rustom
2008-11-03 9:10 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-03 16:24 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-11-05 13:41 ` Ken Goldman
2008-11-06 7:08 ` rustom
2008-11-06 16:50 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-07 17:12 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-11-07 17:38 ` Drew Adams
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