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Re: silly regexp-replace question: how to delete empty lines
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Johan Bockgård |
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Re: silly regexp-replace question: how to delete empty lines |
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Thu, 04 Mar 2004 02:31:27 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.2 (usg-unix-v) |
"leo" <halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com> writes:
> now i recall: i guess, the fact that "^[C-j]" works but "^$[C-j]"
> doesn't, is kind of a regexp bug/feature in emacs, isn't it?
For historical compatibility reasons, `$' can be used only at the
end of the regular expression, or before `\)' or `\|'.
For historical compatibility reasons, `^' can be used only at the
beginning of the regular expression, or after `\(' or `\|'.
(info "(elisp)Regexp Special")
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Johan Bockgård