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From: | David Engster |
Subject: | Re: replacing two consecutive words where the two words could be separated by multiple spaces or newlines. |
Date: | Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:18:23 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Nobuko Three <nbko3@yahoo.com> writes: > I wanted to replace all occurrences of `a integer' with `an integer' in a > latex file. But a simple query replace would replace the first `a integer' > of the following paragraph, but not the second one because the second one is > actually separated by a newline and two spaces (the indent). > > > This is a integer. That is a > integer. ... > > What is an automated way to change paragraphs like above to paragraphs like > below? > > This is an integer. That is an > integer. ... You can do this using regular expressions: M-x replace-regexp RET a\(\s-+\)integer RET an\1integer RET -David
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