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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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use ^ inside of [] as start of line
The other answer gives you a good regexp for your problem, I just want to add a bit more information about what seems to be your confusion.
The square brackets syntax [...] means one of any of the ch …
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Removing preceding text from each line of a text
I'd use either a keyboard macro or a replace-regexp.
Keyboard macro: f3 C-a M-d C-d C-d C-n f4 then press f4 to delete the line number for each line.
This records a macro which: puts the cursor to t …
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Regexp replacement: difference between \([[:digit:]]+\) and ([[:digit:]]+)
In emacs regular expressions (unlike most regexp engines), \( and \) are group delimiters, while ( and ) match litteral brackets.
So: \([[:digit:]]+\) matches one digit or more, that is here 123, and …
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"Invalid use of '\' in replacement text" with non-interactive calls
(Credits go to Tobias)
replace-regexp (and query-replace-regexp) have their second read argument malaxed into a suitable form for the elisp call. In particular, in case the replacement string contain …
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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 o …
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