From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Replace regexp question Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:41:02 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87zjv0lqqp.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370704266 14624 80.91.229.3 (8 Jun 2013 15:11:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 15:11:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 08 17:11:08 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UlKnL-0006jI-UF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:11:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41338 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UlKnL-0003Ef-Er for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:11:07 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: individual.net +upBnOa3NBim+JzDfL9vsQ9dLddlQpd9q+zjijQcwbnNKkVy+9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MGQ3MzczZmYzZjgwOGU5MjdiYWY2NjAxMDQ2NmZiNjVlOTA1ODJjMA== sha1:Ly1U73lNyg+DMbTMOv+oJI57J7Y= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199127 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:10:51 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91395 Archived-At: Leandro Marcolino writes: > Hello, all!.. > > I am trying to add text after multiple occurrences of a group, but it is not > working. For example, if I try to change the following: "aaaaaa" to > "aaaaaab", I end up with "ab"... > > I am looking for the regexp: \(a\)+ and I replace by \1b. But then the > sequence of a's is reduced to a single "a". How can I make the final text > have the same number of occurrences of the group as the original text?.. That's because there is a single a inside \( \)! Try: \(a+\) -> \1b -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. You can take the lisper out of the lisp job, but you can't take the lisp out of the lisper (; -- antifuchs