From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regexp problems the evil \[
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:05:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk27fk5vr.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87shm3fygf.fsf@mat.ucm.es
> (query-replace "\\[" "\\begin{displaymath}\n" nil)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
matches \[
> (query-replace-regexp "\\[\\([^}]+\\)\\]" "@\\1" nil))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
matches [
Since [ in regexps has otherwise a special meaning.
To match \[ and \] you'll want
(query-replace-regexp "\\\\\\[\\([^}]+\\)\\\\\\]" "@\\1" nil))
-- Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-23 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-23 21:57 regexp problems the evil \[ Uwe Brauer
2017-03-23 22:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-03-23 22:11 ` Uwe Brauer
2017-03-23 23:38 ` Aurélien Aptel
2017-03-24 0:38 ` hector
2017-03-24 17:07 ` Uwe Brauer
2017-03-24 17:07 ` Uwe Brauer
2017-03-24 2:27 ` Stefan Monnier
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