Questions tagged [regular-expressions]
is for patterns specifying search or replace strings. Also known as `regex` or `regexp`, the patterns describe strings to match when searching or replacing. Emacs provides extensive support for `regex` patterns in many commands. Emacs also provides an interactive expression builder for such patterns.
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emacs multiple regex apropos
If I use apropos-command or apropos-documentation it prompts me for a word list or a regex.
In the command line, apropos allows for multiple regexes where it only shows matches that match all the ...
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Switch a TeX \macro and a script on a region of text
How can I search and replace in a region of a (TeX)buffer all occurences of \macro{foo}_{bar} to \macro{foo_{bar}}, foo and bar not being "constants" ?
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Weird behavior of `search-forward-regexp` influenced by buffer mode change
Action 1: evaluate the lisp expression: (search-forward-regexp "\\s'")
in a buffer in lisp-interaction-mode containing the text:
The pandemic market was cooling, but homes in north Seattle ...
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Highlight query-replace-regexp results while searching
I am terrible at remembering regular expression syntax. When replacing in by buffer with a regexp, I would like Emacs to highlight the possible matches while I am typing the regexp, so that I can see ...
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Regexp for compilation-error-regexp-alist (react)
I try to add regexp for the compilation buffer (vite + react) for next output error:
src/pages/MainPage/MainPage.tsx:18:18 - error TS2304: Cannot find name 'SocialMedia'.
18 <...
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Does any package exist that can make interactive emacs-style regular expressions more readable by using font-locking?
Ideally the package would allow one to display emacs-style regular expressions, as they are entered interactively during a search and replace command, in a more human-readable form.
Perhaps fewer ...
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regexp-isearch with fixed prefix
I'd like to search a buffer for headlines only. A headline is anything starting with the "*" character. Ideally, I'd invoke an interactive function which would take user input at the ...
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regexp string matching a single word
I am looking to match the word as on its own and am using
(s-replace-regexp "\\<as\\>" "s" word)
Is this the way to it?
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Excluding punctuation in regexp when bounds-of-thing-at-point acts on word
I am doing (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'word) to capture words in a buffer.
(let* ( (bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'word))
(word (buffer-substring (car bounds) (cdr bounds)))
I then ...
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Replacing words using multiple rules
This function is supposed to replace matches with a shortened version using multiple rules rather than just a single one. For the word counter, coun gets replaced by k, resulting in the shortened ...
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Using rx to insert word replacement
Been working on replacing regexps with the equivalent rx command, but the expression for rx is not producing the same result I get with the regexp. For the word counter, the regexp expression gives ...
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Scheme to write shortened words according to certain rules
I want to modify words according no certain rules.
Here is a small example with three rules
a) Insert k for words with initial cog, col, com, con, cor, coun, cum.
(insert (replace-regexp-in-string &...
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Replacing single prefix from word
I want to omit the beginning of words starting with some (e.g. something changed to thing).
This is the way I am doing it
(insert (replace-regexp-in-string "\\<\\(some\\)" "" ...
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Using query-replace-regex to partially replace
I'm struggling with the basics of query-replace-regex after reading the manual.
I'm trying to replace lots of citations formatted like this:
#123213213, foo bar
to
#123213213\, foo bar
the numbers ...
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Extraction of reference and pdf from elfeed-entry
My elfeed is focused on finding papers and when I check out each entry, there is a PMID and DOI number at the end.
PMID:39334129 | DOI:10.1207/s12102-021-03242-8
I wanted to call a function that ...
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Extracting numbers from elfeed entry buffer
When I am in a particular elfeed entry buffer, I want to call a function that records the article in my .bib file by extracting the following PMID and DOI numbers from my elfeed-entry buffer:
PMID:...
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image-file-name-regexp: Wrong type argument: characterp
I wanted to mark certain filenames as images and added this to my config.el:
(add-to-list 'image-file-name-regexps "/preview/")
But when I run org-toggle-inline-images now, I get the ...
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Is it possible to mimic sed's "change line" feature?
I'd like to write an elisp function that allows me to replace any line in my buffer matching a regex pattern <PATTERN> with text <TEXT>. In other words, if line N matches <PATTERN>, ...
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Is it possible to get the line number of the nearest regex match above the current cursor position?
I'd like to write an elisp function that tells me the line number of the closest regex match above my current cursor position.
For example, if my cursor is on line 9 of the following file and my regex ...
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Can't find anything about spaces in the official Emacs docs [duplicate]
I want to match every string that cointains a year and a month name e.g. like that:
2022 Jul or 2022 Jul (and more spaces than 2) or even 2022Jul.
The regex I have so far is:
"\\([0-9]\\{4\\}\\)&...
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Regular expression too big
Working to create my own major mode for sqf language (arma3 scripting) I get this error:
Error during redisplay: (jit-lock-function 1) signaled (invalid-regexp "Regular expression too big")
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re-search-forward search for double and reverse quotation mark character
Good afternoon. Difficulties with creating a regular expression for this function. Interested in finding a double quotation mark or back quotation mark. Attempts at use were unsuccessful:
(re-search-...
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Combine two commands
To create a list from sentences in org mode, I use following command
string-insert-rectangle
replace-regexp ^ with -
How can I combine these two to form a single keyboard short-cut?
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regexp fails over expression involving {}
Over:
\includepdf[pages={1-}]{example-image-a.pdf}
I do / get
M-x query-replace-regexp \\includepdf[pages={1-}]{.*} → \\includepdf[pages={1-}]{TEST}
Replace 0 occurrences
The problem comes from the ...
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Does Emacs have some kind of interactive regular expression editor?
I mean something like https://rubular.com/ where I can enter text and experiment with regular expressions to match that text.
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How to match only the one word tag without the multiple word tag in image-dired?
In image-dired I use M-x image-dired-mark-tagged-files to mark files containing a tag e.g. bar (one word tag). The problem is that foo bar (multiple word tag) is marked as well.
What regex do I need ...
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What is the image-dired regexp for line-end?
In image-dired I use M-x image-dired-mark-tagged-files to mark files containing a tag using regexp. e.g. jan. The problem is that jane is marked as well.
What regex do I need to mark jan but not jane?
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How to properly use a regex for font locking
I'm stuck with a specific problem, I'm writing a major-mode for a language that supports multiple assignment, meaning that:
let s = 9
let x, y, z = 1, 2, 3
var k = 11
var a, c = 4, 5
Are all valid ...
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Measuring cyclomatic complexity of nested s-exp
I would like to measure the Cyclomatic Complexity on a file or a region of elisp code. By counting the maximum number of nested s-exp.
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Using a regexp for counting matches
I have the following function that uses a regexp for counting matches, but I have difficulty coming up with regexp expressions to test it.
(defun rk-regex-count (regex rgn-beg rgn-end)
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searching for explicit spaces, without reinterpretation
Often I'll search (an ordinary i-search) for a sequence of two spaces, or three, or four.
But on one machine I'm using, emacs by default appears to be in some mode where searches for spaces are ...
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How to re-search-forward OR
How can I match the values for the keys (org mode attributes) #+label OR #+name?
Example: Using get-labels () I got fig:foo. Nice.
How can I get fig:bar as well?
#+label: fig:foo
#+name: fig:bar
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adding highlight to parts of a regexp
I am pretty new to emacs so please excuse the rookie question.
So I am editing a helm chart template, and have enabled yaml-mode since most of helm uses yaml.
but I wanted to add some highlighting to ...
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How to match two consecutive identical words except for the case of the initial characters?
I'm looking for a solution to match two consecutive identical words except for the case of the initial characters with query-replace-regexp:
The the
the The
I can't figure out how to match these ...
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Compilation mode error output parse not matching
I've below code
(add-to-list 'compilation-error-regexp-alist 'kbd)
(add-to-list 'compilation-error-regexp-alist-alist
'(kbd "^kmonad: Parse error at \\([0-9]+\\):\\([0-9]+\\):" ...
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Find and recursively delete (with query) consecutive duplicate words not necessarily in the same line and/or same case
I would like to scan through a (latex) document and recursively delete -- WITH QUERY -- all consecutive, repeated words that need not be on the same line and/or the same case. Here is a simple ...
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Why I need not single but double backslashes in regexps in auto-mode-alist? [duplicate]
Regexp syntax described in manual is \( for opening group of alternatives for example.
So why I need \\( in auto-mode-alist?
I love emacs and using it for years, but I never had a clear understanding ...
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Regexp syntax for helm-ag -G
I just noticed that
ag -GFilenamePattern\.\*ext ContentPattern
works from command line, but in helm-ag calling it with -GFilenamePattern\.\*ext ContentPattern does not (while -GFilenamePattern ...
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Why is the space character not in the space category (for regexp search)?
I'm trying to get better at using Emacs regular expressions. Reading the documentation I see:
‘\cC’
matches any character that belongs to the category C. For example,
‘\cc’ matches Chinese ...
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Use regex as key/car in alist
I'd like to set up an alist (similar to auto-mode-alist), which is made up from regular expressions as key (AKA car) of the list. Next I'd like to be able, to match, say the major mode, against the ...
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Collect all hashtags from all files within a projectile project
I have a projectile project full of markdown files with hashtags (#sample). I would like to read all the files within the project, collect all hashtags by regex, and use them with company for ...
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Can't find text end by "Logger" in many files
Linux Mint 20.2
Emacs 27.2
In current folder and many subfolders I has many files with tne next content:
private static Logger logger = Logger
.getLogger(JdbcDefaultAccountStatusDao.class);
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Is this syntax parse possible with Emacs' regex expressions?
I'm trying to write a small new mode for some input files to a specific computational physics program. I'm doing it the define-derived-mode way, and was specifying the syntax highlighting by setting ...
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Can I limit refile targets with helm using a regular expression?
I would like to be able to use regular expressions in helm when selecting a refile target following an org-refile call. For example, if my list of targets includes
1. H1/
1. H1/P1/
1. H1/P1/C1/
1. H1/...
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i have a regex that i want to apply only to the lines immediately following a \item line in a latex list. how do i do it?
I should mention that I want to do this in emacs with its version of regex.
Here's an example. I would like to change
- \item
- Property Agreement
- Your agreement changing Joint ...
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How to replace (blah) with {blah} for a specific string
In a latex document, I wish to replace \cost(blah) with \cost{blah} in the entire document, where blah is an arbitrary string. That is, I only want to change the round brackets to curly brackets for ...
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Escape all square brackets with replace-regexp-in-string
So I was writing a function that would convert one type of a link (e.g. Org-mode link) to another type (e.g. Markdown), and then I realized that Org-mode doesn't require you to escape square brackets, ...
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What is the meaning of the `\(?1::\)` Emacs string syntax regexp?
The bat-mode.el defines the following regexp used by re-search-forward:
"^[ \t]*\\(?:\\(@?r\\)em\\_>\\|\\(?1::\\):\\).*"
What is the meaning of the 1 in \\(?1::\\) inside the regexp?
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flush-lines: only upper case not working
Here's some text:
test
HELLO
999
help
HOW ARE YOU
buy
aaa
H
d
I need to remove all lines without uppercase. The result must be
HELLO
HOW ARE YOU
H
I tried M-x flush-lines [a-z] RET but the output ...
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Is there a way to delete the content under selected headers, but not the headers (and subheaders) themselves?
Is there a way to delete the content under selected headers, but not the headers (and subheaders) themselves?
I.e.,
** TOC
*** PART 1: VECTORS AND GRAPHICS
[[https://livebook.manning.com/book/math-...
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