From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Malte Spiess Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regex replace Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:51:58 +0100 Organization: Arcor Message-ID: <87k60yb1g1.fsf@trick.ulm.malte.spiess> References: <1165843856.336513.16270@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165873297 4113 80.91.229.10 (11 Dec 2006 21:41:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:41:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 11 22:41:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gtstu-0003ns-Lo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:41:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gtstt-00062l-QC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:41:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!news2.euro.net!newshub3.home.nl!home.nl!feeder1.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!news.netcologne.de!nhp.netcologne.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wtG51Ofecyp48x7u+nHC7t5GbOE= Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Dec 2006 21:51:12 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 9f41230b.newsspool3.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=NOIJE_foUE<^8FBo0_81f>McF=Q^Z^V384Fo<]lROoR1gUcjd<3m<; 2<2_mf4ldY3 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:39440 Archived-At: Gary Wessle writes: > "rgb" writes: > >> Gary Wessle wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > I need to remove the "//" from the beginning of all the lines in my >> > c++ code which contain the string 'n', including the single comma. >> > e.g, un-comment all of those lines that qualify. and then also to >> > place "//" not including the double quotes at the beginning of all >> > lines containing the 'f' string. >> > >> > this is a bit too much for me to come up with. >> > >> > thanks >> >> C-M-% ^\(//\)\(.*'n',\)\2 >> >> C-M-% ^.*'f'//\0 > > // if( some switch->fd ) p_acc->sbs(a_f, morearg, somemore, 'n', 0); // no action taken > > the first command you posted will not work on the above, even after I > modified it to take the spaces at the start like this. > C-M-% ^ *\(//\)\(.*'n',\)\2 Hm, strange, works fine here! Could you maybe tell us what was your output? Are you sure you really did C-M-% and not M-% ? What other line did it work with? By the way, should there be no other occurances of 'n', this would also be nice for a macro... Greetings Malte