From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
Subject: Re: Storing regular expressions somewhere....
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:45:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yoijk64ze9qo.fsf@gamma02.me.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5508.1156345825.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Birju Prajapati" <floating.buddha@gmail.com> writes:
> On 23/08/06, Birju Prajapati <floating.buddha@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Sometimes I need to do complicated replace-regexps. However, they
>> can be prone to errors, so what I end up doing is an
>> isearch-forward-regexp until I get the expression correct. Once it
>> is correct, I write it down and then type it back into a
>> replace-regexp command! Rather cumbersome....Is there some sort of
>> isearch-forwared-replace-regexp command ? Or can I recall the
>> previous regexp searched for in my isearch-forward-regexp?
You can type `M-e' in isearch and then copy the string from there.
(In Emacs 22 you can run query replace directly from isearch with
`M-%'.)
Also, if you set `query-replace-interactive' to non-nil, replacements
will reuse the last search string automatically.
> After digging around a bit, I found M-x regexp-builder. However,
> this doesn't seem to understand predefined character classes such as
> \s- and seems to have a different regexp syntax. Is this a bug or am
> I doing something wrong?
By default backslashes have to be doubled (like inside a Lisp string).
Try
(setq reb-re-syntax 'string)
--
Johan Bockgård
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-23 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-23 14:05 Storing regular expressions somewhere Birju Prajapati
2006-08-23 15:10 ` Birju Prajapati
2006-08-23 15:27 ` Drew Adams
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2006-08-23 15:45 ` Johan Bockgård [this message]
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2006-08-23 18:29 Jay Bingham
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