[h-e-w] RE: Query-replace-regexp

[Wojciech Komornicki]

How about
   M-x replace-regexp [RETURN] ^\([^/]*\)/ [RETURN] \1///

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Wojciech Komornicki                                      Dept of Mathematics
address@hidden                                     Hamline University
http://www.hamline.edu/~wnk/                               St Paul, MN 55104
                                                                         USA

>>>>> "pat" == Patrick Flaherty <address@hidden> writes:

  pat:>  Hi,

  pat:>  Have the following string:

  pat:>  [a1] /an initial particle/prefix to names of people/

  pat:> Want to replace just the first / with ///.

  pat:>  I find that isearch-forward-regexp with

  pat:>  .*p

  pat:>  takes me to the first 'p'.  So far so good.

  pat:>  However

  pat:>  .*/

  pat:>  takes me to the end of the line (not the first
  pat:> forward slash).

  pat:>  And yet forward slash is not a special character.

  pat:>  Any ideas?  thanx.

  pat:>  pat