From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mass conversion of items
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:19:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mu2979mj.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgc1lejc.fsf@skimble.plus.com> (Sharon Kimble's message of "Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:09:27 +0100")
On Tuesday, 1 Sep 2020 at 16:09, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> 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?
You may wish to use replacement with regular expressions: Check info
manual for emacs, (emacs) Regexp Replace
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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.3.7-725-g7bc18e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-01 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-01 15:09 Mass conversion of items Sharon Kimble
2020-09-01 16:14 ` tomas
2020-09-01 17:22 ` Sharon Kimble
2020-09-01 17:36 ` tomas
2020-09-01 16:19 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2020-09-01 17:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
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