Re: regexp/emacs selective replace

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <mailman.11424.1259102060.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 m121212 <m121212@mailinator.com> wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I have a tricky problem that I'm not sure how to solve.  I have a latex
> document with several figure environments that look like this:
> 
> \begin{figure}
>  \includegraphics{blah.ps}
> \end{figure}
> 
> but need to look like this:
> 
> \begin{figure}
>   \begin{center} \includegraphics{blah.ps} \end{center}
> \end{figure}
> 
> Some of the figure environments already have this however, and I don't want
> to end up with something like this:
> 
> \begin{figure}
>   \begin{center}\begin{center} \includegraphics{blah.ps}
> \end{center}\end{center}
> \end{figure}
> 
> Any ideas?

Does query-replace-regexp do what you want?  It will prompt you before 
each possible replacement, and you can say whether to replace that 
instance.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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