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Re: A query-replace question


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: A query-replace question
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:24:56 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi to all Emacs users.
>
> In a large .tex file, I wish to replace all `x' with `a', but only those
> occurrences of x that lay between two dollars symbols: e.g., $x = y$.  Could
> that be ever possible with Emacs, and how?

M-: (require 'texmathp) RET

C-M-% x RET \,(if (texmathp) "a" \&) RET

Note that this includes \max and similar, so you might want to use
something like
\_<x\_>
as your search expression for doing the matching.

-- 
David Kastrup


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