Yes, read the help sections on regular expression search and replace. You
can "capture" the text between the {}'s and keep it without losing it (read
up on submatches).


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:31 AM, sharky <landhaj@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm using emacs to write LaTeX code, which means I have a lot of stuff
> that looks like this:
>
> \section{Headline}
>
> Blah blah yada yada \textit{italic yada} and the yada yada \textbf
> {bold yada} and then \myspecial{yada}.
>
> You get the picture. I wanna search and delete the enclosing thingy,
> like so:
>
> \myspecial{yada} -----> yada
>
> Is there a way to do this in emacs?
>
> Please help!
>
> /Sharky
>