Re: [AUCTeX-devel] change: documents with $$ to \begin{documents}

[David Kastrup]

Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi[1]
>
> Sometimes I receive documents with have basically only 
> $$
> \int f =0
> $$
> constructions instead of say 
> \begin{displaymath} or {equation*} etc.
>
> Anybody has a idea how to change the evil $$ to true latex constructs by
> using sophisticated regexp?

Not all that sophisticated.

M-% \$\$\(.*?\)\$\$ RET \\begin{equation*}\1\\end{equation*} RET

Note the use of .*? (non-greedy match) instead of .* here.

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David Kastrup