I messed up my latex code; I need to replace \cite[42]{source}. with .\cite[42]{source} and \cite{source}. with .\cite{source}. I tried \\cite\(.*\)\}\. -> .\\cite\1\} but I got an error: Invalid use of '\' in replacement text. How do I fix this?
You don't backslash the curly brace } in the replacement text. This works, when entered at the query-replace-regexp prompt:
FROM: \\cite\(.+\)}\.
TO: .\\cite\1}
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+says "one or more characters after\citeand before the closing brace" which means that\cite}will not be matched. It's not a big deal, but I thought it was cleaner. – Ted Zlatanov Feb 2 '15 at 11:33
