search and replace

search and replace

[David Rasmussen]

I am trying with query replace to replace

\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]

with

\traverse

but it just replaces 0 occurrences. I don't understand why.

Do I have to do anything special? Is it because the string contains 
special characters or ... ?

/David

Re: search and replace

[Mike Ballard]

On Sat Jul 03, I was peacefully napping until David Rasmussen said:

> I am trying with query replace to replace
> 
> \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]
> 
> with
> 
> \traverse
> 
> but it just replaces 0 occurrences. I don't understand why.
> 
> Do I have to do anything special? Is it because the string contains special characters
> or ... ?

No.  Most likely.  Did you try partial searches up to say the "," and/or
the "-"?  "-" (at the least) need to be escaped...

Mike
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   it straightened out."

Re: search and replace

[Mike Ballard]

On Sat Jul 03, I was peacefully napping until David Rasmussen said:

> I am trying with query replace to replace
> 
> \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]
> 
> with
> 
> \traverse
> 
> but it just replaces 0 occurrences. I don't understand why.
> 
> Do I have to do anything special? Is it because the string contains special characters
> or ... ?
> 

Sorry - I missed the first "\" and "[" - those mean something in regexps
so they need to be escaped as well...

Mike
-- 

mikeballard at symbol verizon period net

  "If your main parachute fouls, deploy your reserve.  If your 
   reserve is also fouled you have the rest of your life to get
   it straightened out."

Re: search and replace

[David Rasmussen]

Mike Ballard wrote:
> On Sat Jul 03, I was peacefully napping until David Rasmussen said:
> 
> Sorry - I missed the first "\" and "[" - those mean something in regexps
> so they need to be escaped as well...
> 

I didn't think M-% (query and replace) worked on regexps. Is there a way 
to do search on replace on raw text, not regexps?

/David

Re: search and replace

[Ole Laursen]

David Rasmussen <david.rasmussen@gmx.net> writes:

[...]

> I didn't think M-% (query and replace) worked on regexps. Is there a
> way to do search on replace on raw text, not regexps?

You were right in your thinking - it doesn't work on regexps. I tried
copying the

  \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]

into *scratch* and used M-% to query-replace it with \traverse. It
works fine here. Remember that if you place the cursor on top of the
above line, Emacs won't find it. You need to place the cursor before the
line for Emacs to find it.

-- 
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/

Re: search and replace

[David Rasmussen]

Ole Laursen wrote:
> 
> You were right in your thinking - it doesn't work on regexps. I tried
> copying the
> 
>   \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]
> 
> into *scratch* and used M-% to query-replace it with \traverse. It
> works fine here. Remember that if you place the cursor on top of the
> above line, Emacs won't find it. You need to place the cursor before the
> line for Emacs to find it.
> 

Hmm. I had a file containing something like:

\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{a}{b}
\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{b}{c}
\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{c}{d}
\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{d}{e}
\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{e}{f}
\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{f}{g}

And I did M-% to replace 
\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]
with
\traverse

The cursor was before any of these line (and even if not, the search 
wraps around anyway, doesn't it?). It just said "0 occurences replaced".

I don't understand why... I had to use another editor to perform the 
replace :(

/David

Re: search and replace

[Ole Laursen]

David Rasmussen <david.rasmussen@gmx.net> writes:

[...]

> Hmm. I had a file containing something like:
>
> \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{a}{b}
> \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{b}{c}
> \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{c}{d}
> \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{d}{e}
> \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{e}{f}
> \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{f}{g}
>
> And I did M-% to replace
> \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]
> with
> \traverse
>
> The cursor was before any of these line (and even if not, the search
> wraps around anyway, doesn't it?). It just said "0 occurences
> replaced".

No, it never wraps around.

> I don't understand why... I had to use another editor to perform the
> replace :(

I tried those lines too, and it still works as expected. Someone
strange must have happened.

-- 
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/

Re: search and replace

[Josh Howard]

David Rasmussen <david.rasmussen@gmx.net> writes:

> The cursor was before any of these line (and even if not, the search
> wraps around anyway, doesn't it?). It just said "0 occurences
> replaced".

It doesn't wrap around by default. Putting the cursor on the line
above \ncline certainly works here. I am running Emacs out of CVS
from a month or two ago. Perhaps there was a bug in a released
version? I do consider the fact that you can't do the replace on the
line in question a bug, but otherwise it does seem to work.

-- 
Josh Howard <jrh@zeppelin.net>

Re: search and replace

[Mike Ballard]

On Sun Jul 04, I was peacefully napping until David Rasmussen said:

> Mike Ballard wrote:
> > On Sat Jul 03, I was peacefully napping until David Rasmussen said:
> > Sorry - I missed the first "\" and "[" - those mean something in regexps
> > so they need to be escaped as well...
> >
> 
> I didn't think M-% (query and replace) worked on regexps. Is there a way to do search
> on replace on raw text, not regexps?
> 

My apologies :-)  The trouble with remapped keys is you remember what they
do but forgot what they are.  I use 'query replace regexp' in place of
'query replace'...

Mike
-- 

mikeballard at symbol verizon period net

  "If your main parachute fouls, deploy your reserve.  If your 
   reserve is also fouled you have the rest of your life to get
   it straightened out."

Re: search and replace

[David Combs]

In article <m2zn6g8wsw.fsf@west_f1.net>,
Mike Ballard  <dont_w@nt_spam.org> wrote:
>
>On Sat Jul 03, I was peacefully napping until David Rasmussen said:
>
>> I am trying with query replace to replace
>> 
>> \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]
>> 
>  ...       "-" (at the least) need to be escaped...



Hyphen have to be escaped?  Know of a situation where that-s
true?

Maybe it was a typo, and instead meant the square-brackets (for 
char-class)?

Thanks!

David

Search and replace

[tho643]

Here's an example of what I'm trying to do in my emacs console:

me@your-domain.com
you@my-domain.com
this@no-domain.com

Now after a search and replace this is what I want to get:

your-domain.com
my-domain.com
no-domain.com

I do not konw how to get rid of the 'me' 'you' 'this' and '@' in one
search and replace command.  I know how to change the @, but how would
be able to delete it, and everything else that happens to come before
it, on the same line.  I hope this makes sense to you.

Thanks

Re: Search and replace

[Marc Tfardy]

tho643@gmail.com schrieb:
> Here's an example of what I'm trying to do in my emacs console:
> 
> me@your-domain.com
> you@my-domain.com
> this@no-domain.com
> 
> Now after a search and replace this is what I want to get:
> 
> your-domain.com
> my-domain.com
> no-domain.com
> 
> I do not konw how to get rid of the 'me' 'you' 'this' and '@' in one
> search and replace command.  I know how to change the @, but how would
> be able to delete it, and everything else that happens to come before
> it, on the same line.  I hope this makes sense to you.

M-x replace-regexp RET .+@\(.*\) RET \1

But this macro do the same job:

C-a			;; move-beginning-of-line
C-SPC			;; set-mark-command
C-s			;; isearch-forward
@			;; self-insert-command
RET			;; newline
C-w			;; kill-region
C-n			;; next-line

and than C-x C-k r on region

:-)


regards
Marc

Re: Search and replace

[Barry Margolin]

In article <6bg8udF3cavbgU1@mid.individual.net>,
 Marc Tfardy <m-t-o___CUT__IT@web.de> wrote:

> tho643@gmail.com schrieb:
> > Here's an example of what I'm trying to do in my emacs console:
> > 
> > me@your-domain.com
> > you@my-domain.com
> > this@no-domain.com
> > 
> > Now after a search and replace this is what I want to get:
> > 
> > your-domain.com
> > my-domain.com
> > no-domain.com
> > 
> > I do not konw how to get rid of the 'me' 'you' 'this' and '@' in one
> > search and replace command.  I know how to change the @, but how would
> > be able to delete it, and everything else that happens to come before
> > it, on the same line.  I hope this makes sense to you.
> 
> M-x replace-regexp RET .+@\(.*\) RET \1

Even simpler:

M-x replace-regexp RET .+@ RET RET

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: Search and replace

[Marc Tfardy]

Barry Margolin schrieb:
> In article <6bg8udF3cavbgU1@mid.individual.net>,

>> M-x replace-regexp RET .+@\(.*\) RET \1
> 
> Even simpler:
> 
> M-x replace-regexp RET .+@ RET RET

Indeed! :)

regards
Marc