From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: new member Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:13:09 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <878xjvqam2.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: <1160015257.268170.235270@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160048505 12791 80.91.229.2 (5 Oct 2006 11:41:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:41:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 05 13:41:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVRbh-0001Xk-3Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:41:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVRbg-0001nY-Io for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:41:40 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!bolzen.all.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 49 Original-X-Trace: individual.net cUkRXvDXdfJTo3rsfc7g6QoAiMV8fz7+dBcO0QemrrT3MZ/fXK Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rOcXCXs4oqLJDxT2GUQp4/GkCF8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142198 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:37817 Archived-At: Peter Tury writes: > "minidiapolis" writes: > >> Hello, I don't know if I'm in the right group. I'm a relatively new >> user to Emacs and I was wondering how I would do a search and have it >> delete the specific text. if someone could help me out, I would really >> appreciate it. Thanks, Mindy > > Yes, you are in the right group! > > Emacs is said to be (among others) a "self documenting" editor. This > is, in fact rather close to reality. I personally would recommend to > every new user to install a relatively new version (what contains the > full documentation by default) and start using C-h. Well, first C-h t for the tutorial where replace-string is mentionned. > E.g. in your case: > * C-h i -> opens the documentation (Info) > * don't forget to read the "intro" on the top of the page: it describes > the most basic keys in an info window > * go to "Emacs" (second link) (and Enter) > * go to Concept Index > * search for "replace": C-s replace > * repeat C-s until you find what you need. In this case it can be: > "* global substitution: Replace." > Here (chapter 20.9) you see how to query replace, regexp replace, etc... > > Well, you already need some Emacs-specific keys for these steps, but you > will remember them quite soon ;-) > > You can check what a key would do by: > C-h k > > C-h b shows all usable keys in the active window. > > And C-x k closes ("kills") the unnecessary windows... > > Br, > P -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ WARNING: This product attracts every other piece of matter in the universe, including the products of other manufacturers, with a force proportional to the product of the masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them.