From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
Subject: Re: Mass conversion of items
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 19:12:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuwhctga.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu2979mj.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
On 2020-09-01, at 18:19, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 Sep 2020 at 16:09, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> I would like to change about 150+ 'foos' and possibly using
>> 'replace-string' to do it. Also, 'foo' is lots of different words which
>> includes spaces between some of them. So how can I do it please?
>
> You may wish to use replacement with regular expressions: Check info
> manual for emacs, (emacs) Regexp Replace
Maybe you could also use keyboard macros for that.
Hth,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-01 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-01 15:09 Mass conversion of items Sharon Kimble
2020-09-01 16:14 ` tomas
2020-09-01 17:22 ` Sharon Kimble
2020-09-01 17:36 ` tomas
2020-09-01 16:19 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-09-01 17:12 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
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