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Re: regexp/emacs selective replace
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Joost Kremers |
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Re: regexp/emacs selective replace |
Date: |
25 Nov 2009 12:11:50 GMT |
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m121212 wrote:
>
> Thanks for your repsonses! The solution for me in the end was just to record
> a keyboard macro. Do you use a particular guide for regexps?
(info "(emacs) Regexps")
> Also, could
> you explain this part: {[^}]*} *$ RET ?
see the above info node. ;-) { and the final } are just literal characters,
[...] describes a set of alternatives. ^ negates such a set, so that [^}]
matches any character other than }.
note that {[^}]*} could also have been written as {.*?} (which IHMO is a bit
clearer and easier to read).
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Re: regexp/emacs selective replace, Xah Lee, 2009/11/27