Re: replacing two consecutive words where the two words could be separated by multiple spaces or newlines.

[Kevin Rodgers]

jpkotta wrote:
> On Apr 17, 3:18 am, David Engster <d...@randomsample.de> wrote:
> > You can do this using regular expressions:
> >
> > M-x replace-regexp RET a\(\s-+\)integer RET an\1integer RET
>
> I was curious about the "\s-" because I've never seen such a thing.
> It sort of makes sense after RTFM, but it doesn't work all the time.
> Is it equivalent to "[[:space:]]"?  Apparently, it depends on the
> major mode.

Of course :-)

> "a\([[:space:]^J]+\)integer" works for me, where "^J" is C-q C-j.

I think that newline has comment-ender syntax (not whitespace-character)
in some major modes.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA