On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 04:09:27PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > I'm hoping that someone can help with this problem I have. > > I have several org-mode files which have some specific formatting in > individual items, specifically - > > - --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > \uuline{foo} > - --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > This gives a double-underling of 'foo' when exported to latex and built > into a pdf file. > > I'm now in the situation when the double underlining also needs to be > italicised, and in org-mode its showing as - > > - --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > /\uuline{foo}/ > - --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > This gives a double-underling and italicised of 'foo' when exported to > latex and built into a pdf file. > > I would like to change about 150+ 'foos' and possibly using > 'replace-string' to do it. Also, 'foo' is lots of different words which > includes spaces between some of them. So how can I do it please? Hm. From your description it's unclear what exactly are you after. A couple of questions to try to zoom into that: - You want to change the text in the curly braces, i.e. what you call 'foo' above? Is this text always different? Is it possible to state a rule describing how this text looks like and by what you want to replace it? Or is the process going to be manual? - All that stuff: is it in one file or scattered across multiple files? I'm sure there are a couple of other questions I just forget now, But we'll get there :) Cheers - t