From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: regex question
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 18:18:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vfw6gb9y.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87znljuide.fsf@web.de
upro <upro@gmx.net> writes:
> I want to use M-x replace-regexp like this
>
> s/[a-z]''/$1"/g
I'm not sure what this means, but I assume you want to replace stuff
like a'' with a".
> the first part [a-z]'' works, but then the mathed lowercase letter is
> not reinserted, but a litteral $1.
>
> How does that work in emacs-regex? I don't find the relevant info in
> the info file...
You could do:
`M-x replace-regexp RET \([a-z]\)'' RET \1" RET'
Regexp syntax in Emacs is described in <info://emacs/Regexps>.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-19 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-19 14:21 regex question upro
2003-05-19 15:52 ` Danilo Segan
2003-05-19 17:20 ` upro
2003-05-19 16:18 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-05-19 16:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-19 19:07 ` Barry Margolin
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2007-09-02 17:11 Dave Pawson
2007-09-02 18:31 ` Peter Dyballa
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2007-09-02 18:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-09-03 6:52 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-02 18:44 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
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