From: "s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>
Subject: query-replace-regexp ... "Invalid repacement string '\.'"
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:56:41 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnehe6po.rqm.keeling@heretic.spots.ab.ca> (raw)
Hi. I was trying to make it easy on myself using q-r-r replacing
'[^\]\.' (not a backslash, followed by a literal dot/period) with the
string (sans quotes) '\.', essentially "escaping" every dot/period in
the file. "M-x query-replace" had no trouble with it but M-x
query-replace-regexp refused, spouting the error message in the
subject.
So how do you replace '.' with '\.' in emacs? Googling's
(groups.google.com) turned up nothing useful (interesting, but not
useful). I tried variations of '\\\.' (literal backslash followed by
literal period) to no effect.
Suggestions or pointers welcome. Thanks.
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next reply other threads:[~2006-09-24 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-24 23:56 s. keeling [this message]
2006-09-25 6:33 ` query-replace-regexp ... "Invalid repacement string '\.'" Malte Spiess
2006-09-25 7:02 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <85vencl9ar.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
2006-09-25 7:14 ` Malte Spiess
2006-09-25 6:55 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-25 7:17 ` Malte Spiess
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