Re: Storing regular expressions somewhere....

[Birju Prajapati]

On 23/08/06, Birju Prajapati <floating.buddha@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Sometimes I need to do complicated replace-regexps. However, they can
> be prone to errors, so what I end up doing is an
> isearch-forward-regexp until I get the expression correct. Once it is
> correct, I write it down and then type it back into a replace-regexp
> command! Rather cumbersome....Is there some sort of
> isearch-forwared-replace-regexp command ? Or can I recall the previous
> regexp searched for in my isearch-forward-regexp?

After digging around a bit, I found M-x regexp-builder. However, this
doesn't seem to understand predefined character classes such as \s-
and seems to have a different regexp syntax. Is this a bug or am I
doing something wrong?

Cheers,
Birju