Re: search and replace

[David Rasmussen]

Ole Laursen wrote:
> You were right in your thinking - it doesn't work on regexps. I tried
> copying the
>
>   \ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]
>
> into *scratch* and used M-% to query-replace it with \traverse. It
> works fine here. Remember that if you place the cursor on top of the
> above line, Emacs won't find it. You need to place the cursor before the
> line for Emacs to find it.

Hmm. I had a file containing something like:

\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{a}{b}
\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{b}{c}
\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{c}{d}
\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{d}{e}
\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{e}{f}
\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]{f}{g}

And I did M-% to replace 
\ncline[linewidth=0.3mm,offset=-1.5mm,arrows=->,nodesep=4mm]
with
\traverse

The cursor was before any of these line (and even if not, the search 
wraps around anyway, doesn't it?). It just said "0 occurences replaced".

I don't understand why... I had to use another editor to perform the 
replace :(

/David