Re: Emacs replace-regexp

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Andreas Madsack <andreas.madsack@web.de> writes:

> Am Monday 26 July 2004 12:35 schrieb Thomas Ruschival:
> > Hi,
> > I guess I am too stupid to read the regexp syntax of Emacs I can't figure
> > out how to access parts of the match for replace like in perl or awk with
> > $1,$2....
> > I'd like to put brackets around the hyperlinks of a latex-document.
> > do I did a replace-regexp "(\ref\{.*\})" "\[$1\]"
> > and it doesn't do the trick. so I played a little while with the syntax and
> > all I got out were "$1" on each place where once was a hyperlink....hmmm.
> 
> In emacs-regex it's \1,\2,...
> 
> your latex-brackets problem: \(\ref{.*}\) -> [\1]

No.  If at all, \(\\ref{[^}]*}\) -> [\1]

But this is already too complicated. \\ref{[^}]*} -> [\&]

will do the trick.

> for more help on replace-regexp: C-h f replace-regexp

Better

(info "(emacs)Regexp Replace")
                              ^ press C-x C-e here.

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