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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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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Apply evil-mode Macro to helm-ag Results
I love using helm-ag-edit within projectile to make bulk edits to many files in my project in one fell swoop.
However, sometimes I want to apply keyboard macros (using evil-mode) to these files.
The ...
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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
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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 ...
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<C-x>r-t without overwriting
how do i use rectangle select-replace C-x r t without overwriting the current column? For example, when I would like to add something before the first or last column, i must manually go and insert ...
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Query-replace-regexp alternative capable of handling nested braces?
TL;DR
Is there some method in Emacs to replace text with nested braces/parentheses?
Example
I had a situation where I had to replace
\dchi{ARG1}{ARG2}
by
\chi^{ARG2}(ARG1)
For simple cases, ...
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M-x replace-regexp uppercases words in replacement text based on the first letter present in the line
So, I have the following buffer:
1234
Red
blue
green
yellow
# colors
orange
Now, if I run M-x replace-regexp I get odd results. If I have the search string: ^\(.+\)$ and the replacement string: ...
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Replace whole words in string
replace-string has the DELIMITED parameter, which can be used to replace only whole words. replace-in-string does not have such a parameter. Is there an easy work-around besides creating a temporary ...
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How can I replace outside of org-babel blocks?
I am using a command which affects the entire buffer, replacing all the ocurrences of a given expression
(goto-char (point-min)) (replace-string "foo" "bar")
Is it possible to apply a command like ...
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Search/replace inside a rectangular region, without CUA mode
I want to use search/replace (string or regexp) inside a rectangular region (aka column selection?).
Consider this question: Search and replace inside a rectangle in emacs
That's what I want, except ...
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Arithmetics in a regex in a lisp function
I want to replace all hard column widths in several LaTeX-documents, e.g. replace {90mm} by {0.75\textwidth}. I already found out that you can use \, and #1 to so arithmetics on captured groups, like ...
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Perform-replace only on text (no comments, no math) in latex-mode?
I need to write some Emacs-Lisp code that uses the perform-replace function, limiting its range of action only on text (ignoring comments, in-line math and math ambients) on LaTeX documents (in latex-...
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Incorrect value of region-end in function that calls replace-string
I am writing a function to do replacements on a highlighted region. It appears that while region-end changes after each replace, the value is not correct. That is, it does not point to the last ...
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“Invalid use of '\' in replacement text” with non-interactive calls
It seems that replace-regexp has a different behavior if called interactively and not, but I do not understand why, and how to get the wanted behavior.
What I want is the non-interactive equivalent ...
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how do I do case sensitive searches using evil/spacemacs?
I'm trying to perform a search and replace in spacemacs but I need it to be case sensitive when by default it appears to be case insensitive. So I try to do :set noignorecase but then I have this ...
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how can i do for replace a part of a regexp
For example i have this text:
select * from T1 ;
select * from T2 ;
select * from T3 ;
My objetive is replace the text by this other:
select * from T1_H ;
select * from T2_H ;
select * from ...
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How do I debug when match-data is not getting set?
Lately, I have seen some cases where I use re-search-forward to find a pattern, and then try to do something with the match, only to find that the match-data is apparently not correct.
For example, ...
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Search and replace on lines range, numerically
I was lately being teased by a vi user. He said that within few commands, one can do search-replace (both regexp and simple string ), on lines range. And one does not need to do highlight. One inputs ...
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Find and replace matching html tags
I want to transform some of the opening and closing tags in an html document to other tags. That is I would like to transform
<div class='foo'> This is some text. </div>
to something ...
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query-replace-regexp on specific lines
how does one do a query-replace-regexp to add a prefix string but not on EVERY line but rather just lines with text (or start with specific text?)
i know how to add a prefix with query-replace-regexp ...
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Replace two strings with each other
I would like to change all occurrences of a string (say string1) with another string (say string2) and vice-versa. To be precise I have a long document and these strings occur many times. What I ...
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Search/replace-like feature for swapping text
I frequently find myself trying to replace e.g. foo with bar and bar with foo in a buffer.
The way I usually do it is either:
3 query-replaces: aaa -> @@@, bbb -> aaa, @@@ -> bbb
give up on ...
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How do I replace a block of text with another block of text in elisp?
I'm working with an org-mode file that might contain headlines and text, like
* Headline 1
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: h1
:END:
This is some text.
** Subheading A
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: s1
:END:
...
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How do I lowercase (downcase) a group with replace-regexp?
I have some text that looks like this:
"CFName"
"CLName"
"CDOB"
"CGender"
I would like to get output where are of the text inside the double quotes is lowercased, like this:
"cfname"
"clname"
"cdob"...
