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Re: Emacs/Mac OS X/search and replace


From: Anupam Sengupta
Subject: Re: Emacs/Mac OS X/search and replace
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:44:56 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (windows-nt)

>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Murray <fjmurray1@mac.com> writes:

    Frank> Hello, A new post.  I'm trying to find the feature (if Emacs, v21.2.1
    Frank> on Mac OS X) where you can search and replace, i.e., whatever key
    Frank> command, either ctrl - <some key>, or Meta - <some key> in order to
    Frank> search for a particular character or string and replace it with
    Frank> something else, again:

    Frank> search <some text> replace with <some other text>, i.e., search "0"
    Frank> replace with "1"

See M-%  (query-replace)

You can also do search and replace using regexps:

C-M-% (query-replace-regexp)

See 
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en?CategorySearchAndReplace

for additional details.

Also note that info is your friend here. Try 

C-h i

HTH,
-- 
Anupam





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