From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Replace whole words?
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 03:50:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d6emwq64.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Xns93E7BCA3B6E3Fljxilsjfdiaujiosdfua@130.133.1.4
dum dee dee dum <xjkljasdfi@yahoo.org> writes:
> I have written a fairly long program, but I now want to find and
> replace all the 'int' s in the program to double as easily as
> possible. But I don't want the other words, variable names, etc. in
> the program that have 'int' in them (internationalization, for
> example) to change. Any ideas? M-% is an option, but I have to say
> yes or no for each word it finds to make sure that parts of words
> don't get replaced - I want to do this in just one command if
> possible.
You can replace by using a regular expression -- use `C-M-%'.
"\<" matches the beginning of a word, and "\>" matches the end of a
word. So "\<int\>" is the string you want to search for.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-31 1:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Xns93E7BCA3B6E3Fljxilsjfdiaujiosdfua@130.133.1.4>
2003-08-31 1:43 ` Replace whole words? Johan Bockgård
2003-09-01 13:19 ` Rob Thorpe
2003-08-31 1:50 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-08-31 9:19 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] <E19tLWW-0000ph-Tp@monty-python.gnu.org>
2003-08-31 16:28 ` Joe Corneli
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