From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
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: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:01:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gsj5s2$8pq$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00af68b0-6ded-4dcc-b0b6-46b027c505e7@c12g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>
jpkotta wrote:
> On Apr 17, 3:18 am, David Engster <d...@randomsample.de> wrote:
>> You can do this using regular expressions:
>>
>> M-x replace-regexp RET a\(\s-+\)integer RET an\1integer RET
>
> I was curious about the "\s-" because I've never seen such a thing.
> It sort of makes sense after RTFM, but it doesn't work all the time.
> Is it equivalent to "[[:space:]]"? Apparently, it depends on the
> major mode.
Of course :-)
> "a\([[:space:]^J]+\)integer" works for me, where "^J" is C-q C-j.
I think that newline has comment-ender syntax (not whitespace-character)
in some major modes.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-21 1:01 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
[not found] ` <mailman.5514.1239956322.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-19 4:43 ` jpkotta
2009-04-21 1:01 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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