remove \t after a yank

remove \t after a yank

[Gary Wessle]

Hi

sometimes I copy and yank to a buffer a text with tab inform of lines
where I then would like to remove one tab from the biggining of each
line, query-replace-regex <RET>\T<RET><RET> will not do, first it want
to replace the char t and second it want to replace all tabs if a line
happen to start with multi tabs.

thanks

Re: remove \t after a yank

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com>:

| sometimes I copy and yank to a buffer a text with tab inform of lines
| where I then would like to remove one tab from the biggining of each
| line, query-replace-regex <RET>\T<RET><RET> will not do, first it want
| to replace the char t and second it want to replace all tabs if a line
| happen to start with multi tabs.

Hmm.  I don't understand how both of the above can be true at the same
time.  Anyway, \T is not a correct regexp for a tab.  Typing a plain
tab character should do the trick.  Adding a ^ in front of it should
limit the replacement to tabs at the beginning of a line:

M-x query-replace-regex <RET> ^ <TAB> <RET> <RET>

But easier is C-x C-x C-u -8 C-x <TAB>.  I.e., mark the just yanked
region, then indent it by -8 spaces.  (The C-x C-x may not be needed
if you're not using transient-mark-mode.  It's been so long I no
longer remember what life was without it.)

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