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henry atting wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am searching a regexp for `replace-regexp' to remove only one LaTeX
> command. Let's say I want to remove all \textit{} commands but not the
> text within the braces, how can I do this?
> 
> henry
> 

\\textit{\([^}]*\)} -> \1

If you need to handle escaped brackets the regexp gets a little longer.

-ap