From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Utilizing Regexp (or something else) to replace an arbitrary string length of the same character with the same string length of another character. Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:23:39 +0100 Message-ID: <3FD399B7-4291-495F-A17A-5C3D604E1047@Web.DE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227828267 17070 80.91.229.12 (27 Nov 2008 23:24:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs Help To: Tim Visher Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 28 00:25:31 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 1L5qEg-0003xL-Ju for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:25:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L5qDU-0002zZ-L0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:24:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L5qD9-0002xs-Pu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:23:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L5qD7-0002tg-5K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:23:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54700 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L5qD7-0002tX-2M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:23:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:48749) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L5qD6-0006sY-O9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:23:48 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp06.web.de (fmsmtp06.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.172]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F2FF4E2F5A; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:23:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [91.35.246.172] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp06.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1L5qD5-0005Gx-00; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:23:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+VAefeRA67A67ulQa0toCyHNDtPUxMYfCYaE4R zOzNr/p86rFJeCvXnoeCgPLAFpvY5veHI1/3uAQNGHfyUCZtPA rciQOU6BXC4K2JEDf9zw== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:60169 Archived-At: Am 27.11.2008 um 21:24 schrieb Tim Visher: > The issue is that I use the characters I want to replace > at other locations where I don't want them replaced. You can mark a region. This will restrict substitutions to happen only inside the marked region. -- Greetings Pete Remember: use logout to logout.