Questions tagged [replace]
Replacing is the action of searching a string for a sub-string and replacing it with a different string.
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need help with very complex find and replace
I have a very complex (at least to my mind) text replacement task. ideally this would be a function or macro I could run over every org header in a buffer.
I want to
1. move over any TODO state to a ...
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Search/replace and replace within a block of selected text of buffer in spacemacs
As stated in the title, I want to search and edit (including replace) certain strings in a selected part of a buffer, not the entire buffer!!!, how can I do it? Are there any built-in keystrokes?
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How to replace all search-highlighted text resulting from a search with evil mode?
Once there is a search result, either from...
Pressing / and entering the search term.
Pressing * over a word.
How can I replace the highlighted text after performing a search?
Currently I ...
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Replace full-width numerals with half-width numerals
I'd like to convert numerals from half-width to full-width characters with a simple regex search and replace as follows:
replace-regexp-in-string regexp rep string &optional fixedcase literal ...
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Replace a block of code with another
How can I replace a block of code with another, akin to query-replace/query-replace-regexp?
For example:
Replacing the following block:
for(A) {
if(B) {
s1;
} else {
C;
}
}
with
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Complex searching and replacing [duplicate]
Suppose I have following pattern:
throw "some message";
which I'd like to replace with:
throw new Error("some message");
So, "some message" part should not be changed (or copied as is), and ...
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Selecting next occurrence of word incrementally
I want to make changes inside a paragraph of a large text file.
If I have the cursor at the word "foo", what key combination would get the cursor at the next occurrences of this word? The cursor ...
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How to call `replace-string` with specific strings from code?
Sometimes I want to replace [$] with \( and [/$] with \) either in the region or in the whole buffer. replace-string works well for that, except for requiring me to type the strings I want to replace. ...
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Regex: Don't Match Text Between Curly Braces (LaTeX Commands)
I've been using pandoc and emacs to convert beamer presentations to markdown format. In the beamer presentations we highlighted certain code in example code blocks red. Pandoc has left me to get rid ...
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How to paste a multiline regex from re-builder into `replace-regexp`
I built with M-x re-builder a regex to match empty quoted lines in emails. In read syntax it is:
"^>\\s-*\n>"
How can I copy this regex in re-builder, so that I can paste it in the first ...
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csv-mode: do not split line on newline inside quoted field
I'm using the latest csv-mode in Emacs 25.3.1 in centos 6.10. The problem is that I have many fields that are long documentation strings and many of them have embedded newlines. This messed up csv-...
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Search and replace two consecutive newlines
Running spacemacs 0.200.
I am sorry if it is too basic. But I am just not able to get this.
How do I convert two consecutive newlines with some text, say, 'there were two newlines here'?
I could ...
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replace char at position using Emacs script
Below script will insert a char at position:
#!/usr/bin/env emacs --script
(defun modify(filename)
(find-file-literally filename)
(goto-char 3)
(insert "\x39")
(save-buffer 0)
(kill-buffer)...
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Using Occur to to recursively search in a directory [duplicate]
I use 'occur' to search for regexp in current buffer and edit the results in occur buffer .
Now my requirement is to search all the files in a directory(including sub-directories ) and edit the ...
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Emacs replace-regexp reference the match in the replace argument
Is there an easy way to use replace-regexp to do something like:
XYZ001
XYZ002
XYZ003
to
'XYZ001'
'XYZ002'
'XYZ003'
i.e. replace-regexp XYZ* 'XYZ*'
Is replace-regexp the the wrong tool for the ...
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Search and replace isn't working in my function
I created the following function to remove macrons from vowels (this is a reduced version that only searches for the vowel "ā"):
(defun nv/eliminatemacron ()
""
(interactive)
(save-excursion
...
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Elisp expressions in projectile-replace-regexp
I need to execute a regular expression with case conversion in a entire project. If I run query-replace-regexp in a single file informing '\([A-Z]+\)' and '\,(downcase \1)', it works as expected. But ...
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search and replace double space
I've only recently started using emacs, for professional reasons.
I'm trying to replace all double spaces in a text file by single ones using regex.
In C-M-s the expression \s-\{2\} matches two spaces ...
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Search and replace TeX \over with LaTeX \frac
I have a source file that was originally coded in TeX (well, this is actually a conTeXt file). A fraction like 1/(2/x^2) is coded as {1 \over {2 \over x^2}}. I'd like to convert to LaTeX syntax, that ...
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Add multiple predicates to isearch-filter-predicate
I wrote a set of predicates to filter matches in my ìsearch-* and query-replace* routines. I also wrote a macro to bind the isearch-filter-predicate variable to multiple predicates:
(defmacro with-...
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How safe is “with-silent-modifications” to mask (hide) strings before and after buffer modification?
In my LaTeX code I want to replace one-line eqnarray environments with the equation environment. To do that I need to "count" the new-line (\\) strings in a region and I also need to ignore some new-...
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Regexp replace to match a string, but not match a superstring
Let's say I want to replace the string "Vector" by "VectorBase", but there are existing instances of "VectorBase". So I would like to omit "VectorBase". What is an elegant way to achieve this?
An ...
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Replacing selected text in Emacs with one character
In Vim, I can do this trick on a line with the words "People":
yy p Shift-v r +
It will produce a set of lines that like this:
People
++++++
I would like to be able to reproduce this in Emacs if ...
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How remove text before “,” (include) in every lines?
suppose I has the next text:
-1,0x0 Fireplace HD
1160,0x0 Music HD
719,1 HD
-1,1 MUSIC CHANNEL
154,1+1
-1,100% News
-1,100AutoMoto TV
I need to remove text before "," (include ,)
So the result must ...
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Function that does `M-x replace-regexp` or `M-x occur` with a fixed pattern and replacement strings
I often use M-x replace-regexp and M-x occur with some fixed regexp pattern and replacement string on many files.
Doing it manually by opening each file in an Emacs buffer and hitting the keys is ...
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Advanced search and replace
I have a file, with a lot of instances of
...
fclose(f1);
fclose(f2);
fclose(f3);
...
I'd like to replace these with
...
if(fclose(f1)!=0) return 1;
if(fclose(f2)!=0) return 1;
if(fclose(f3)!=0) ...
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How to remove empty lines of a selected region of code in Emacs?
Is there a way to remove blank lines from a region of code I select?
I am asking because I copy/pasted code and it seems to have several blank lines I want to get rid off.
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Create strings of a wordlist using replace-regexp
I have a word list with a lot of words that I want to convert into a json file. To do this I need to make them strings and add a comma in the end of all words. I figured it would be nice to use ...
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Using a predefined Regex on a yank
can you please help me to write a small emacs function? This is the first lisp function I am writing and I think I am getting confused with point and mark placement.
I want to write a function that ...
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Match data clobbered by buffer modification hooks in tex files
I run into the error Match data clobbered by buffer modification hooks when editing tex files. The way to reproduce is as follows.
In terminal,
cd
mkdir tèst/
cd tèst/
touch test.tex
echo "\input ./...
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Change Case of last searched pattern
Is there a fast way of changing the case of the last searched pattern?
Inside Evil mode, I press # key to quickly search for keywords at point. And I want to change the case of all occurences of ...
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In elisp, search and replace only on lines containing a specific string
Running spacemacs 0.200.13 on emacs 25.2.2 on Kubuntu 18.04.
I need to search and replace only on lines containing a specific string.
Interactively, I use occur, move to the occur buffer, and do all ...
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Replace a match only till some other match is found
Aiming to convert first row of a html table from to tags.
So, I wrote the following code.
(defun tdtoth ()
(if (search-forward "</tr>" nil t)
(while (search-forward "td" nil t)
...
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Case-sensitive search and replace in elisp in spacemacs
Running Spacemacs v.0.200.13 on emacs 25.2.2 on Kubuntu 18.04.
Consider the following code:
(defun xx-ll ()
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(goto-char (point-min))
(xx-replace-...
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Produce \' in a string replacement
As you know, functions such as replace-regexp-in-string and replace-match have an argument LITERAL, meaning ...
If optional ... arg LITERAL is non-nil, insert NEWTEXT literally.
Otherwise treat ‘\’ ...
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Replacing autoref command format specification in auctex's font-latex-match-reference-keywords-local
With some help I have redefined the autoref command to take an optional argument, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/428229/autoref-with-optional-argument-text-in-generated-link
Now I am ...
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How to find all characters, newlines included?
I have this LaTeX code:
%%% 10
\bibitem{bib2}
W.~Kockelmann, G.~Burca, J.F.~Kelleher, S.~Kabra, S.-Y.~Zhang, N.J.~Rhodes
et~al., \emph{Status of the neutron imaging and diffraction instrument
IMAT},...
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How can I use a char as a counter?
I have this LaTeX code:
\begin{enumerate}[a]
\affiliation{...}
\affiliation{...}
\affiliation{...}
...
\affiliation{...}
\end{enumerate}
and, using a script written in Emacs Lisp, I want to ...
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Help with `replace-regexp-in-string`, to replace only first instance in every line
I have the following string:
// const asdf = 'asdf'
// // comment
// const asdf2 = asdf
And I want to run a regexp replace to make it look as follows:
const asdf = 'asdf'
// comment
const asdf2 = ...
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How to search for any unicode octal character in a buffer?
I'm looking for a way to locate all unicode octal characters in a buffer such as \344 and replace them with ä or \353 with ë, etc.
At the least if I could just locate octal characters using ...
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Incrementally replace a given string
Let us say I have a text like so below:
AC(nn)
AC(nn)
AC(nn)
AC(nn)
AC(nn)
AC(nn)
AC(nn)
AC(nn)
AC(nn)
AC(nn)
AC(nn)
Now I want to replace the nn with numbers like so
AC(0)
AC(1)
AC(2)
AC(3)
AC(4)...
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Replacing string in a region and conditional replace
My goal is to write a simple function that can do the following:
Staring with an expression that looks like
$$ x = y $$
$$ y = z $$
$$ z = x $$
(There can more lines of such equations)
I want to ...
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How to replace matching parentheses?
I write (and rewrite) a lot of mathematical formulas in LaTeX with Emacs. I frequently run into situations where I want to change a pair of matching parentheses, to improve readability. My Emacs is ...
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How can I constrain a predefined replacement-function to selected text?
When using replace-string from the M-x while having some text selected, it only operates on that selection (specifically, on an Evil visual selection, in my case). However, if I put the same ...
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Replace certain multibyte characters
In my markdown file (coming from a Windows computer on which I have no control), I have several multi-byte characters.
Some text xx Some text yy Some text
In emacs, they are displayed as \221 and \...
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Find and replace a text among the files of a project
How can I do a "find and replace a string" in the files of a project? Is there a standard, built-in way?
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Find/replace in differrent file extensions
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1, Dired+, xah-find
I use package xah-find for find/replace text in many files.
OK. It's work.
If I want to find in all java files I use the next regexp:
File path regex: \.java\...
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Executing multiple replacement regexps against a string
I wanted to write a function that "auto-corrects" a string, based on a list of regular expressions and their respective replacements.
I've come up with this, and it works:
(setq auto-corrections-...
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Using result of an Elisp function as input to replace-regexp in interactive mode
I am using replace-regexp interactively. Can I programmatically refer to a match or otherwise interpolate values in the replacement string? In Ruby, for example, it is easily done, by using the #{ <...
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elisp replace float number with half value
I need to replace below string:
(24.0000,28.0000) .. controls (27.3100,28.0000) and (29.9800,25.3100) .. (29.9800,22.0000)
to:
(12,14) .. controls (13.655,14) and (14.99,12.655) .. (14.99,11)
The ...
