From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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 Message-ID: References: <23093020.post@talk.nabble.com> <00af68b0-6ded-4dcc-b0b6-46b027c505e7@c12g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240275945 9578 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2009 01:05:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:05:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 21 03:07:04 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lw4Rz-0007Ug-Fi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:07:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47754 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lw4Qa-00017C-Ms for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:05:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lw4QE-00016l-8X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:05:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lw4Q8-000160-Sq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47883 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lw4Q8-00015x-OL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38495 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lw4Q7-0004KH-MM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lw4Q2-0001wV-GD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:05:02 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.36.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:05:02 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:05:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Macintosh/20090302) In-Reply-To: <00af68b0-6ded-4dcc-b0b6-46b027c505e7@c12g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63914 Archived-At: jpkotta wrote: > On Apr 17, 3:18 am, David Engster 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