From: "Birju Prajapati" <floating.buddha@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Storing regular expressions somewhere....
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:10:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e02b8c250608230810j2d869f0m6e69373060bbe2b8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e02b8c250608230705o7d3e006aic44b9d083abd48fa@mail.gmail.com>
On 23/08/06, Birju Prajapati <floating.buddha@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Sometimes I need to do complicated replace-regexps. However, they can
> be prone to errors, so what I end up doing is an
> isearch-forward-regexp until I get the expression correct. Once it is
> correct, I write it down and then type it back into a replace-regexp
> command! Rather cumbersome....Is there some sort of
> isearch-forwared-replace-regexp command ? Or can I recall the previous
> regexp searched for in my isearch-forward-regexp?
After digging around a bit, I found M-x regexp-builder. However, this
doesn't seem to understand predefined character classes such as \s-
and seems to have a different regexp syntax. Is this a bug or am I
doing something wrong?
Cheers,
Birju
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2006-08-23 14:05 Storing regular expressions somewhere Birju Prajapati
2006-08-23 15:10 ` Birju Prajapati [this message]
2006-08-23 15:27 ` Drew Adams
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2006-08-23 15:45 ` Johan Bockgård
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2006-08-23 18:29 Jay Bingham
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