;; 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' ..[Type ,more] |twb> Thanks. |misty> I appreciate the help . misty (n=misty@oh-65-40-78-243.sta.sprint-hsd.net) has left channel #emacs