Re: Emacs replace-regexp

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Ruschival <t.ruschival@vivid-md.de> writes:

> I guess I am too stupid to read the regexp syntax of Emacs I can't
> figure out how to access parts of the match for replace like in perl
> or awk with $1,$2....  I'd like to put brackets around the
> hyperlinks of a latex-document.  do I did a replace-regexp
> "(\ref\{.*\})" "\[$1\]" and it doesn't do the trick. so I played a
> little while with the syntax and all I got out were "$1" on each
> place where once was a hyperlink....hmmm.

You could try reading the documentation in the Emacs manual.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum