From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How does one avoid matching \n when matching all but whitespace? Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:26:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87ir8vc3d9.fsf@escher.local.home> References: <11481693.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183843607 24523 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2007 21:26:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 21:26:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 07 23:26:46 2007 connect(): Connection refused 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 1I7Hnh-0006qh-Vy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:26:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7Hnh-0002k3-Cv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:26:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7HnU-0002jo-L2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:26:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7HnS-0002jc-6l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:26:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7HnS-0002jZ-1N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:26:30 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I7HnR-0007Tz-80 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:26:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I7HnF-0000Ct-KN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:26:17 +0200 Original-Received: from i577bcded.versanet.de ([87.123.205.237]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:26:17 +0200 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by i577bcded.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:26:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i577bcded.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:45532 Archived-At: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 12:59:31 -0700 (PDT) ld1976 wrote: > Hello all. This is a rookie's question. > I am trying to a simple text regular expression replacement. > The text goes as follows (white spaces may change: > tcl_cmd bla > kuku > I want to change it to: > tcl_cmd bla > kuku.rev1 > When trying to use replace-regexp \(>[ ]+[^ ]+\) to \1.rev1 I get: > tcl_cmd bla > kuku > .rev1 > This is quiet different than using the \W+ with perl... > I think that emacs matches within [^ ]+ \n too. Trying to use [^ \n]+ did > not solve the issue either. With replace-regexp you need to type C-q C-j instead of \n to match a newline. (Emacs 22.1 gives you a hint to that effect when you type `\n' in the regexp.) Steve Berman