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: regular expression for special character Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:35:35 +0100 Message-ID: <4FC82FE8-3DA2-4F03-8B01-EA775ED97502@Web.DE> References: <121d0b43-204c-41d5-a6d8-c8cb9cd2060d@d32g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228685781 16975 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2008 21:36:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 21:36:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: tomer Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 22:37:24 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 1L9RJW-00006J-VL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:37:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37529 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L9RIL-0003p9-OS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:36:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9RI2-0003nK-5c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:35:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9RI0-0003m3-PM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:35:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38423 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L9RI0-0003lk-Gn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:35:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:41975) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L9RI0-0000U0-5O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:35:44 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp08.web.de (fmsmtp08.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F393DFA595D6; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:35:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [91.35.240.115] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1L9RHy-0003Vh-00; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:35:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+IJb/lSTp2ECOGmo1ZddB3L6JaCbxnkK6z/BoK GIgN0UjUjJoxQyFaXFg81dXzoY8s80Skl7TRXkf/XkL/OAfMK2 WpbgNRH3jDffRO902elw== 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:60432 Archived-At: Am 07.12.2008 um 18:53 schrieb tomer: > i need to filter (blank lines space,tabs,empy line mix of them) (replace-regexp "^\([ ]+\|\) " "") IOW (in other words): replace all occurrences of strings that consist =20= of a series of one or more SPC or of one or more TAB or a mixture =20 them or of nothing with nothing. You can test such regular expressions with isearch-forward-regexp or =20 isearch-backward-regexp. BTW, the linefeed you see in my regexp *is* a linefeed. -- Greetings Pete It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips. =96 Garfield