From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: replacing two consecutive words where the two words could be separated by multiple spaces or newlines.
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:18:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ocuv3d80.fsf@arcor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 23093020.post@talk.nabble.com
Nobuko Three <nbko3@yahoo.com> writes:
> I wanted to replace all occurrences of `a integer' with `an integer' in a
> latex file. But a simple query replace would replace the first `a integer'
> of the following paragraph, but not the second one because the second one is
> actually separated by a newline and two spaces (the indent).
>
>
> This is a integer. That is a
> integer. ...
>
> What is an automated way to change paragraphs like above to paragraphs like
> below?
>
> This is an integer. That is an
> integer. ...
You can do this using regular expressions:
M-x replace-regexp RET a\(\s-+\)integer RET an\1integer RET
-David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-17 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-17 8:06 replacing two consecutive words where the two words could be separated by multiple spaces or newlines Nobuko Three
2009-04-17 8:18 ` David Engster [this message]
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2009-04-19 4:43 ` jpkotta
2009-04-21 1:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
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