Re: replacing two consecutive words where the two words could be separated by multiple spaces or newlines.

[David Engster]

Nobuko Three <nbko3@yahoo.com> writes:
> I wanted to replace all occurrences of `a integer' with `an integer' in a
> latex file. But a simple query replace would replace the first `a integer'
> of the following paragraph, but not the second one because the second one is
> actually separated by a newline and two spaces (the indent).
>
>
>   This is a integer. That is a
>   integer. ...
>
> What is an automated way to change paragraphs like above to paragraphs like
> below?
>
>   This is an integer. That is an
>   integer. ...

You can do this using regular expressions:

M-x replace-regexp RET a\(\s-+\)integer RET an\1integer RET

-David