From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Wessle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: regex replace Date: 12 Dec 2006 18:57:33 +1100 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: References: <1165843856.336513.16270@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> <87k60yb1g1.fsf@trick.ulm.malte.spiess> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165909226 30437 80.91.229.10 (12 Dec 2006 07:40:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:40:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 12 08:40:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gu2FT-00076r-4G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:40:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gu2FS-0002Or-LZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:40:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newsfeed.pacific.net.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.59.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.178.27.177 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 46 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1165906126 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 1035 203.134.67.67:2323 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143851 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:39454 Archived-At: Malte Spiess writes: > Gary Wessle writes: > > > "rgb" writes: > > > >> Gary Wessle wrote: > >> > Hi > >> > > >> > I need to remove the "//" from the beginning of all the lines in my > >> > c++ code which contain the string 'n', including the single comma. > >> > e.g, un-comment all of those lines that qualify. and then also to > >> > place "//" not including the double quotes at the beginning of all > >> > lines containing the 'f' string. > >> > > >> > this is a bit too much for me to come up with. > >> > > >> > thanks > >> > >> C-M-% ^\(//\)\(.*'n',\)\2 > >> > >> C-M-% ^.*'f'//\0 > > > > // if( some switch->fd ) p_acc->sbs(a_f, morearg, somemore, 'n', 0); // no action taken > > > > the first command you posted will not work on the above, even after I > > modified it to take the spaces at the start like this. > > C-M-% ^ *\(//\)\(.*'n',\)\2 > > Hm, strange, works fine here! > > Could you maybe tell us what was your output? something like 0 replaced. >Are you sure you really > did C-M-% and not M-% ? What other line did it work with? > C-M-% does not work here. GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2006-03-07 on hs20-bc1-6.build.redhat.com so I did M-x query-replace-regex I am still don't know why it did not fire.