Re: regex question

[Dave Pawson]

On 02/09/07, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:

> > I.e. I want to retain the group ([A-E])
> > so that the finished text reads 'try text>A
> >
> > Does emacs regex support groups please?
>
> Sure it does.
>
> M-x replace-regexp \(try\)\(\>.\) RET \1 text\2 RET

\1 to insert the text!
Yet another case where emacs can do it, just need to find out how!

Many thanks Tassilo.
No Harald, I'd tried the book and failed.
I'll try the info file now.

Thanks to you and Peter for the response.

regard



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