From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Another replace regexp with list question Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:10:30 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370846135 11183 80.91.229.3 (10 Jun 2013 06:35:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 06:35:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 10 08:35:36 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UlvhX-0004Uk-6x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:35:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UlvhW-0001jV-RR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:35:34 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="26482"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+xVGtML9GNeY925BmO0Xlt" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fboAPkzzy/mVfzW8VF0vvVpkxac= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199157 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:35:21 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91426 Archived-At: In article , Leandro Marcolino wrote: > Hello, everyone!.. > > This time I am trying to find occurrences of: > > "私私私私", but > the number of 私 can change from 1 to many. > > And I want to replace each 私 of the list to a white space (besides > removing the clause). So, if there were x "私", I need x " ". > Is it possible to do this using replace-regexp?.. Of course I can't just > look for "私" and replace to " ", because I have occurrences of > "私" that are not inside the group " style='color:white'>". > > I tried something like "\(\(私\)+\) > -> \,(cond (\1 " ")))", but then I lose the information of how many > "私" were there, and everything changes to a single " ".... > > Thanks for your help!.. :) > > Regards, > Leandro Regular expressions can't count. I would do it with a keyboard macro. Search for the span, mark it as a region, narrow to region, use replace-string to replace each 私 with space, widen. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***