From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regexp to strip off LaTeX command Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:15:01 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1229613368.24911@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <87r645u9ya.fsf@literaturlatenight.de> <1229592056.359077@arno.fh-trier.de> <87ljudu852.fsf@literaturlatenight.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229614962 7142 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2008 15:42:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:42:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 18 16:43:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LDL2D-0002Hp-Nf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:43:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44445 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDL11-0007lw-Ha for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:42:19 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news-2.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1229613417 12254 143.93.54.11 (18 Dec 2008 15:16:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:16:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: <87ljudu852.fsf@literaturlatenight.de> Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-088-069-051-076.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165471 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60797 Archived-At: henry atting wrote: > Zitat - Andreas Politz * Do Dez 18 2008 um 10:19 - > >> 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 > > Thanks, works fine. :) > > I understand the first part but can you please explain what `\1' stands > for? > > henry \1 is a backreference and refers to the 1st parenthese group, much like a variable. Here is a better explanation, somewhere in the middle. (info "(elisp)Regexp Backslash") -ap