Re: vim equivalent in emacs %5,50s/serah_term/replace_term/gc

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 08.11.2007 um 05:01 schrieb iluvindo:

> Hi I recently moved from vim to emacs and need help to search and  
> replace
> using line numbers(say between two lines 5 and 50).  This can be  
> done in vim
> as %5,50s/serah_term/replace_term/gc
> What is equivalent in emacs?

Activate 'active region highlighting' from Options menu, mark the  
region either by dragging with the mouse cursor or with the keyboard  
(M-g g 5 RET C-SPC M-g g 50 RET), and then substitute:

        M-x replace-string RET <from> RET <to> RET

The number of replacements in one line cannot be limited to one.  
Details can be found in the GNU Emacs tutorial (C-h t) or when asking  
for a description of the function:

        C-h f <function name> RET

There is also a hypertext based documentation:

        C-h i RET m emacs RET

There is also the function replace-regexp which uses regular  
expressions to search for a string and replace it with another one.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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