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Replacing is the action of searching a string for a sub-string and replacing it with a different string.

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Replace a match only till some other match is found

(defun tdtoth () (if (search-forward "</tr>" nil t) (while (search-forward "td" nil t) (replace-match "th" 1)))) And executed it while I was on in the following text: <tr> <td> Some … text </td> <td> Another thing </td> </tr> The idea being search for </tr> only once and while that is not happening, replace every td with th But that code does not work. …
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In elisp, search and replace only on lines containing a specific string

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 search and replacement there. … "C" 1))))) And used it on a buffer with: AB BB CB But it replaces all Bs with Cs whereas it should only replace AB with AC. …
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Case-sensitive search and replace in elisp in spacemacs

class=\"nicelist\"\\)" "\\1 type=\"A\"") (xx-replace-regexp-and-return "^[[:blank:]]\*LLI[[:space:]]\*\\(<[ou]l class=\"nicelist\"\\)" "\\1 type=\"I\"") (xx-replace-regexp-and-return … "\\)" "\\1 type=\"i\""))) (defun xx-replace-regexp-and-return (from to) (save-excursion (while (re-search-forward from nil t) (replace-match to 1)))) The 1 in replace-to …
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Case-sensitive search and replace in elisp in spacemacs

The following change to xx-replace-regexp-and-return solves the problem: (defun xx-replace-regexp-and-return (from to) (let ((case-fold-search nil))) (save-excursion (while (re-search-forward … from nil t) (replace-match to 1)))) The only change needed was to add (let ((case-fold-search nil))). …
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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 se …
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Replace certain multibyte characters

(or replace-regexp or replace-string) these characters? … I mean, when it asks me to enter the string to replace, how do I enter \221 or \222, etc.? …
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