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Re: line beginning with a regexp.
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Chuck Siska |
Subject: |
Re: line beginning with a regexp. |
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Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:48:21 -0800 |
anna --
no elisp needed, just an old hack:
Copy section to alter into another buffer, for safety
Go to beginning of that buffer
M-x replace-string "^Jcall procedure_name("
with "@#$#@call procedure_name("
M-x replace-string "^J" with ""
M-x replace-string "@#$#@call procedure_name("
with "^Jcall procedure_name("
Copy the altered section back
the point is to hide the "good" newlines, kill the "bad"
newlines, and replace the "good" newlines when done.
note, the newline character "^J" is entered by C-q C-j.
good luck.
-- chuck siska
G Annamalai wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I was wondering whether this kind of "editing" can be done in Emacs
> itself using elisp rather than using a shell script or a perl script.
>
> I have this file containing a few lines. They are all sql commands.
>
> <snip>
> call procedure_name( long list of
> argument calls );
> call procedure_name( another long long
> list of arguments that seems
> to be very long indeed);
> call procedure_name( yet another long
> argument list);
> </snip>
>
> Something like that. I would like to edit this file so that
> each command is in its own line, like,
>
> <snip>
> call procedure_name( long ... calls );
> call procedure_name( another ... indeed);
> call procedure_name( yet ... list);
> </snip>
>
> Can anyone help me? Or is this not the right list? Is there a
> mailing list for Elisp?
>
> Thanks for your time and help.
>
> Cheers,
> anna
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