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Unicode in an Emacs regular expression
I'm using emacs 24.
How can I replace all occurrences of the non-printable Unicode bidi character RTL, whose hexadecimal number is 202e? I want to replace it with the non-printable Unicode bidi ...
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Emacs: How can I delete all hyphenations at the end of lines in a text?
I scanned a pdf with usuall hyphenation at the end of the lines and need to process the text.
Example:
There are these two young fish swim-
ming along and they happen to meet
an older fish swimming ...
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About regexp in emacs ediff-directories
I want to compare two directories which have similar hierarchy.
With "M-x ediff-directories" within Emacs, I was prompted to input a regexp to constrain the name of files I want to compare. For ...
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Emacs Regex Capture+Replace: (abc (:key map)) -> (abc (-> map :key str))
I have a bunch of (clojure) code that looks like this:
(content (:some-key some-map))
I want this code to become:
(content (-> some-map :some-key str))
I tried:
(content (\(:[-a-z].*\) ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to let Emacs' regexp based commands such `query-replace-regexp` use Perl regexp?
Is there a way to let Emacs' regexp based commands such query-replace-regexp use Perl regexp?
I am hoping there is some reasonably simple way to achieve this, for example, by adding code in .emacs.
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1answer
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Can I use perl based regular expressions on buffers in emacs?
Emacs regex seems to have a few strange rules like escaping brackets. I'd rather use the perl based regex I've always used.
2
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1answer
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Command that behaves like Emacs' align-regexp
Let's say you have a properties file that looks like this:
prop1 = value1
longerprop = value2
reallylongpropthathasnomeaning = val3
shorterprop = val4
and you want to "beautify" it into this:
...
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How do you use more than 9 regex capture groups in emacs?
I'm trying to transform a rather long sequence of values to a different format, using emacs' replace-regex command. There are more than 9 values to extract, so the \1 - \9 back references are not ...
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1answer
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Emacs: How to make regexp search the default for C-s?
How can I change Emacs so that the regexp search (instead of normal search) is the default?
I would like to be able to type C-s [0-9], for example, and it takes me to the next number. Then, press ...
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Activating Emacs' kill-ring in Regex-builder
How can you activate Emacs' kill-ring in Regex-builder?
My regex " [a-zA-z/0-9-.]*" hilights stuff which I want to be removed.
I put the regex to kill ring by C-c C-w.
I unsuccessfuly activate the ...
