Re: regexp/emacs selective replace

[harven]

Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> writes:

> note that {[^}]*} could also have been written as {.*?} (which IHMO is a bit
> clearer and easier to read).

strictly speaking {[^}]*} is not the same as {.*?}
The first will match

{xxx
} 

because emacs regexp [^...] matches newline if it is not included in the
brackets. By the way {.*?} is probably closer to what the OP asks for.