Re: How does one avoid matching \n when matching all but whitespace?

[Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

On 2007-07-07, ld1976 <lior_dagan@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all. This is a rookie's question.
>  I am trying to a simple text regular expression replacement.
> The text goes as follows (white spaces may change:
> tcl_cmd bla > kuku
> I want to change it to:
> tcl_cmd bla > kuku.rev1
> When trying to use replace-regexp \(>[ ]+[^ ]+\)  to \1.rev1 I get:
> tcl_cmd bla > kuku
> .rev1
> This is quiet different than using the \W+ with perl...

You could do it (almost) the same way you'd do it in perl:

'\(> +\w+\)'  to '\1.rev1'

You can also use '$' to explicitly signal the end of line, which is
helpful if you have other incidences of '> ' that occur earlier in the
line:

'\(> +\w+\)$'  to '\1.rev1'

HTH,

Tyler