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Re: query-replace
From: |
B. T. Raven |
Subject: |
Re: query-replace |
Date: |
Fri, 05 May 2006 14:55:06 GMT |
"Malte Spiess" <cuts@arcor.de> wrote in message
news:87bqudhsox.fsf@ulm.malte.spiess...
> Pedro Sa da Costa <op132650c@mail.telepac.pt> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > 1 -
> > I have this text: "and the android goes away."
> > I want to replace the word "and" to "or", but i don't want to replace
> > the word " [and]roid". How should i do this in emacs? The M-%
> > doesn't work in this case.
>
> The simplest way should be to replace "and " by "or ".
>
> > Thanks,
> > Pedro
>
> Greetings
> Malte
Even simpler is M-% _and_ RET _or_ (where the underscores represent
explicit spaces typed into the pattern strings.
Ed