Thanks, working!! I can't see those options in the manual (15.10.4 Query Replace) and the help is a little bit obscure for me, a new rabbit hole to study ;D Thanks! El 12/11/2022 a las 16:31, Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr escribió: > Ypo writes on Sat 12 Nov 2022 15:42: > > Hi > > > > I am copy-pasting e-books into org-mode to read and study them. > > > > Usually, words come hyphenated, like "ato- mized", that I wanted to > > transform into "atomized". > > > > I am trying with query replace, but I am starting to think that it is > > not the correct tool for this job. > > I tried "query-replace [a-z]-" but I don't know how to exclude the > > letter before the "-". > > I don't really understand the thing with e-books but as for > transforming "ato- mized" (or "ato-mized") into "atomized", how about > something like > > query-replace-regex > > \([a-z]\)-[[:blank:]]*\([a-z]\) > > \1\2 > >