From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regexp/emacs selective replace
Date: 25 Nov 2009 12:11:50 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnhgq7n7.6cl.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.11454.1259150311.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
m121212 wrote:
>
> Thanks for your repsonses! The solution for me in the end was just to record
> a keyboard macro. Do you use a particular guide for regexps?
(info "(emacs) Regexps")
> Also, could
> you explain this part: {[^}]*} *$ RET ?
see the above info node. ;-) { and the final } are just literal characters,
[...] describes a set of alternatives. ^ negates such a set, so that [^}]
matches any character other than }.
note that {[^}]*} could also have been written as {.*?} (which IHMO is a bit
clearer and easier to read).
--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)
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[not found] <mailman.11424.1259102060.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-25 1:30 ` regexp/emacs selective replace Barry Margolin
2009-11-25 8:15 ` harven
2009-11-25 11:58 ` m121212
[not found] ` <mailman.11454.1259150311.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-25 12:11 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2009-11-25 12:36 ` harven
2009-11-25 12:44 ` Joost Kremers
2009-11-25 12:24 ` harven
2009-11-25 12:32 ` Joost Kremers
2009-11-26 19:20 ` Xah Lee
2009-11-23 13:41 m121212
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