From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Peter Heidrich <peter.heidrich@t-online.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Correct RegExp for Substituting "(word 1)(word 2)(word ...)" by "`(word 1)(word2)(word ...)"'?
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:24:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CF90A258-BC22-4BA8-99B6-B1E35208F4AC@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilpfht$b05$01$1@news.t-online.com>
Am 16.03.2011 um 05:50 schrieb Peter Heidrich:
> I still have not found the right search and replace terms in order
> to substitute a set of words starting and ending with quotes.
Did you read about greedy and so greedy regular expressions? It's
mentioned in the GNU Emacs documentation about regexp's. You need to
use the non-greedy form or it would start with the first double-quote
in the line and end with its last one.
--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen
Pete
Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, hat schon alles verloren.
(Juli Zeh)
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2011-03-16 4:50 Correct RegExp for Substituting "(word 1)(word 2)(word ...)" by "`(word 1)(word2)(word ...)"'? Peter Heidrich
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