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;; 2005-09-08 T10:43:32-0400 (Thursday) D. Goel

What a nice channel this used to be, look what has happened to it.

. misty joins
|misty> good morning
|Lukhas> hi misty
|misty> surely it must exist, but I cannot find the emacs way to search and replace
|bojohan`> where did you look?[10:32]
|deego> misty: M-%
|Lukhas> under his keyboard
|bojohan`> misty: are you running in a terminal?[10:33]
|misty> yes in a terminal
|bojohan`> ok
|misty> I looked in my emacs section of linux in a nutshell, and also on google
|misty> I can search till kingdom come but can't see how to replace[10:34]
|misty> probably it's not called replace in emacs so  iam not finding it
|bojohan`> C-h i m emacs RET g replace RET
|misty> ahh replace-string
|misty> how come I could not find it :(
|deego> misty: use meta-%, which is same as escape %, also C-h t for tutorial
|bojohan`> rtfm
|Stoerte> ,df replace-regexp
|fsbot> replace-regexp is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `replace'.
|fsbot> (replace-regexp REGEXP TO-STRING &optional DELIMITED START END)
|fsbot> Replace things after point matching REGEXP with TO-STRING.
|fsbot> Preserve case in each match if `case-replace' and `case-fold-search'
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|twb> Thanks.
|misty> I appreciate the help
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