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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Search and replace in multiples files at once by having them all open as a buffer?
I've done this before in emacs but I can't remember how or which plugins were involved.
Basically you marked a bunch of files according to a file extension, and then you got asked for a search string, ...
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How can I recursively find and replace in the current git repository
I am working inside a git-repo. Here I want to apply my search operation based on the root directory of the git repo that current buffer is open.
Here I do: find-dired "~/my_project" ... in ...
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How can I query replace region from top case-sensitively?
I am using following answer to search and replace a word in the entire buffer:
(defun query-replace-region-or-from-top ()
(interactive)
(progn
(let ((orig-point (point)))
(if (use-...
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xml: copy line if tag found below that line and change content between tags from associated list or hash table
I am rather new to emacs and need some keywords which I can than use to search the manual/forum/google.
Whenever a special tag name can be found in an xml file I would like to copy that line (tags and ...
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How to I replace several texts like (1), (2), (3) etc. with fixed text (1), fixed text (2), fixed text (3) in one go?
My text contains several occurrences like "(1)", "(2)", "(3)". I want to replace these with the general format like "fixed text (1)", "fixed text (2)",...
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Regexp replacement features
In the replacement part of :s in evil I can add commands like \l to lowercase the next char and \L to lowercase everything that follows, but I am unable to find documentation for that anywhere.
I ...
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How to dynamically replace certain text, by evaluating a function on change in current buffer
I am trying to figure out how to use window-change-functions refer here for official documentation to be able to run a function to replace certain text within the current buffer at every change of the ...
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frame-background-mode leads `Args out of range: #<buffer doo.py>, 0, 1` error
I am using following answer to search and replace a word in the entire buffer:
(defun query-replace-region-or-from-top ()
"If marked, query-replace for the region, else for the whole buffer (...
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Replacing with context information
When writing latex sometimes I reuse old documents that use the siunitx package and use the \SI command. Then I often want to include the calculations via pythontex and replace (in a region) \SI with ...
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How can I fix my re-replace-region function in which match data gets clobbered?
I have an ancient function I've been using for decades which performs a regexp replacement in a region:
(defun re-replace-region (begin end old new)
"Replace occurrences of REGEXP with TO-STRING ...
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Pass selected text as argument to a script and replace selected text with output from the script
I'd like to pass some selected text in a buffer to a python script. The python script will process the string and print the result to stdout. This output should replace the original string that was ...
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Equivalent of query-replace-regexp for multiple regexps
How can I do the equivalent of query-replace-regexp for multiple regexps?
For instance, if regexp1 is matched, it should be replaced by text1, and if regexp2 is matched, it should be replaced by text2 ...
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Preserving evil mode search/replace command history
In evil mode, I use a lot of search/replace with %s/pattern/replacement. I have
(evil-select-search-module 'evil-search-module 'evil-search)
in my ~/.emacs file. However, some of the past search/...
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How to select and replace the content of all specific org-headings?
I am trying to select each content-heading extracted with org-noter and then remove all erroneous newlines.
This is my function.
(defun sanitize-noter-import ()
"Sanitizes org-noter imports. ...
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How to modify text that's yanked?
I copy text from websites and paste/yank into emacs buffers. But this text sometimes has silent hyphens in them. The behaviour when copying and pasting text with soft hyphens in it varies across ...
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How to replace the first element of the `kill-ring` by a modification of it?
I am trying to modify the string that is to yanked
My goal is to modify certains paths before yanking, in order to transform them in relative to path actual buffer file.
Following this post, I tried ...
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function to search and replace multiple words - necessary to goto-line 1 every time?
This is a very rudimentary question, but I have a document in which I need to replace many different words fairly frequently, so I created a function that goes like this:
(defun chikan ()
(...
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Replace expressions including variable text
I wish to create a function to put in my .emacs (but I am no Elisp expert) in order to perform a certain number of replacements within an Emacs buffer. In particular, I want to:
replace any ...
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remove "-" (soft hyphen) between words
When I try to paste a text from a web page inside Emacs I get this "-" between words. Here is one example:
Is there a way to get rid of this (don't know the term..) ?
Aus Sicht vieler ...
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Find/replace all files in a directory? (recursively)
One task I still end up using an IDE for is project wide find-replace.
The steps are as follows.
Select a directory to replace in(this could default to the projects root).
Select the file extensions ...
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replace-regexp-in-string: How to prepend a string to the entire string matched?
I am adding divider lines to certain sections of the reports generated by the binary ledger [ https://www.ledger-cli.org/ ] through the function ledger-do-report in the ledger-mode Lisp library [ ...
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How to replace a block of text with a "query-like" approach all at once?
I want to search and replace a block of text with a "query-like" approach all at once.
For example, if I have
\emph{``Foo $\bar$ baz''}
to be replaced by
\emph{Foo $\bar$ baz}
using a &...
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How can I get the search string from incremental regexp search to use with replace regexp
If I want to do a replace-regexp I usually start with a isearch-forward-regexp so I can get immediate visual feedback on the search string.
From there I'd like to grab the search string for using in ...
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How do I search/replace with case sensitive search?
In emacs I'm using M-% to replace occurrences of b_abcd (of which there are only a few) with B_abcd (of which there are very many). Currently Emacs asks if it's OK to replace at each B_abcd, which ...
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Regex to replace subset of repeated pattern
ABC、DEF, GHI, JKL、MNO
PQR、STU, VWX、YZ
How do I replace all , s with 、 in the repeated pattern above?
The repeated pattern can be mapped with the regex below:
"^\\([A-Z]+、\\)\\(\\([A-Z]+\\), \\)+&...
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Decode double-back-slashes-prefixed octal codes in 'utf-8
I have a string "\\303\\273" that I want to decode into û.
It's known that (decode-coding-string "\303\273" 'utf-8) evals to û.
However, I'm not able to translate "\\303\\273&...
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Remove multiple blank lines in a buffer, leave one
I'd like to take a buffer which looks like this:
one
two
three
four
five
And turn it into this
one
two
three
four
five
I've tried using delete-blank-line, however, it will only effect the area ...
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icicles search and replace; need help to do a successfull replace
I try to use Icicles to search and replace. I understand to search with it (some details, that I need), but I'm unable to do a replace.
The link below shows a recipe, that I try to follow, but it ...
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How to replace a letter with its numerical alphabetic position?
I have this code:
\author[p]{...}
\author[bc]{...}
\author[p]{...}
\author[l,o]{...}
\author[t,q]{...}
\author[at]{...}
\author[z]{...}
\author[ak]{...}
\author[az]{...}
\author[ah,bq]{...}
...
I ...
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Programmatically find-and-replace custom sequence
I need to write a command which will apply to my buffer custom, predefined copy-and-replace sequence.
What I have is:
(defun custom-processor ()
"Formats logs to human-readable format"
((replace-...
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How to set a variable that matches different type of strings?
I have these strings:
First Type:
arXiv:1234.56789
arXiv:1234.56789v1
Second type:
hep-th/123456789
hep-th.AB/12345689
hep-th/123456789v1
hep-th.AB/12345689
Belong to the second type even strings ...
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error in process sentinel: Invalid file-name during replacing words
I am getting following error error in process sentinel: Invalid file-name due to generated _flymake.py files, when I am following approach for the recursively find and replace in text files not ...
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Replace string in rectangular region?
When you select a region normally, you can do a replace-string on only that region.
It would be very useful to select a rectangular region (via C-x SPC), and be able to replace-string on only that ...
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Query replace regexp with a distant match?
I have a single transcript file for a set of course lectures I am watching. After doing some formatting on the file. I have it broken up into sets of lessons where the main heading is the lesson title ...
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How to add a suffix to the end of a string in a line?
Here's an example of content in a file
This_is_line_1 : 1
This_is_another_line :2
This_is_3rd_line :3
Here_is_line_4 :4
So, how can using emacs to add char @ immediately to the end 1 string ...
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How to replace first 100 digits with letters?
I want to replace the first 104 digits as it follows:
1 --> a
...
26 --> z
27 --> aa
...
52 --> az
53 --> ba
...
104 --> bz
I have tried as it follows:
(...
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How to replace a LaTex macro with its argument?
I want to replace a macro with its argument, that's to say, if I have
\newcommand{\foo}{FOO}
I want to replace every occurence of \foo with its argument FOO in a specified region.
I am trying to ...
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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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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 ...
