Re: Mass conversion of specific items

[Leo Butler]

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

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> I'm hoping that someone can help with this problem I have.
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> I have several org-mode files which have some specific formatting in
> individual items, specifically -
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> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> \uuline{foo}
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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> This gives a double-underling of 'foo' when exported to latex and built
> into a pdf file.
>
> I'm now in the situation when the double underlining also needs to be
> italicised, and in org-mode its showing as -
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> /\uuline{foo}/
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>   
> This gives a double-underling and italicised of 'foo' when exported to
> latex and built into a pdf file.
>
> I would like to change about 150+ 'foos' and possibly using
> 'replace-string' to do it. Also, 'foo' is lots of different words which
> includes spaces between some of them. So how can I do it please?
>
> Thanks  
>   Sharon.

Sharon,

M-x regexp-builder RET

will give you a window that let's you build a regular expression
(regexp) interactively. When I enter

\\\\uuline{[^}]+}

it finds both strings in your email (I'm using Gnus). Alternatively, you
can use

M-x search-forward-regexp RET

to find the occurences of your regexp.

You don't make precise what you want to change, so I cannot say if it is
worth trying to craft a regexp replacement and use

M-x query-replace-regexp

HTH,
Leo