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From: | Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: | bug#10885: Replace expressions: enhance functionality when searching in filled paragraphs |
Date: | Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:16:36 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.27) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/3.1.19 |
On 2/25/12 6:57 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
linuxfever wrote:Currently it seems that when trying to replace an expression comprising two words, say for example 'replace this', then the functions 'replace-string' or 'replace-regexp' fail to locate the expression when that is split along two lines in the text, i.e., in the above example when the word 'replace' is at the end of one line, and the word 'this' is at the beginning of the next one.You can use query-replace-regexp for this. Sample input: This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. Replace this. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. Replace this. Replace this. M-x query-replace-regexp RET \(replace\)\([ ^I^J]*\)\(this\) RET Done\2that RET Output: This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. Done that. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. Done that. Done that.
Would it make sense for replace-regexp/query-replace-regexp (and other commands that read regexps from the user) to respect search-whitespace-regexp, just like isearch? -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA
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