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Re: search and replace


From: Mike Ballard
Subject: Re: search and replace
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 23:32:03 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1

On Sun Jul 04, I was peacefully napping until David Rasmussen said:

> Mike Ballard wrote:
> > On Sat Jul 03, I was peacefully napping until David Rasmussen said:
> > Sorry - I missed the first "\" and "[" - those mean something in regexps
> > so they need to be escaped as well...
> >
> 
> I didn't think M-% (query and replace) worked on regexps. Is there a way to 
> do search
> on replace on raw text, not regexps?
> 

My apologies :-)  The trouble with remapped keys is you remember what they
do but forgot what they are.  I use 'query replace regexp' in place of
'query replace'...

Mike
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