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Replacing is the action of searching a string for a sub-string and replacing it with a different string.

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Is there a way to use query-replace from grep/ack/ag output modes?

I'm aware of find-grep-dired, marking the corresponding files and then pressing Q to run dired-do-query-replace-regexp on the marked files. Unfortunately that requires restarting the grep and no longer using git-grep, ack, or ag and switching to use…
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How to search and replace in the entire buffer?

Search and replace, by M-% and !, is done from current position to the end of the buffer. How can I do it for the entire buffer? Thanks.
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Incrementally replace a given string

Let us say I have a text like so below: AC(nn) AC(nn) AC(nn) AC(nn) AC(nn) AC(nn) AC(nn) AC(nn) AC(nn) AC(nn) AC(nn) Now I want to replace the nn with numbers like so AC(0) AC(1) AC(2) AC(3) AC(4) AC(5) AC(6) AC(7) AC(8) AC(9) AC(10) I used…
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How to replace matching parentheses?

I write (and rewrite) a lot of mathematical formulas in LaTeX with Emacs. I frequently run into situations where I want to change a pair of matching parentheses, to improve readability. My Emacs is kind enough to show me the matching delimiter, but…
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Is there an equivalent to sed-style substitution commands from vim?

One of the things I miss from vim is being able to type in a substitution command that will work over multiple lines, for example: :/begin/,/end/s/foo/bar/g The above command substitutes "foo" for "bar" starting with the first line containing…
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How to convert a series of lines into a working HTML list?

Right now, this is a task I find a lot easier in something like gedit, because I can just replace "\n" (the line break) with "\n
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    Search/replace-like feature for swapping text

    I frequently find myself trying to replace e.g. foo with bar and bar with foo in a buffer. The way I usually do it is either: 3 query-replaces: aaa -> @@@, bbb -> aaa, @@@ -> bbb give up on automation and just do the replacement by hand I suppose…
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    how do I do case sensitive searches using evil/spacemacs?

    I'm trying to perform a search and replace in spacemacs but I need it to be case sensitive when by default it appears to be case insensitive. So I try to do :set noignorecase but then I have this error message : State noignore case cannot be set as…
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    Replace two strings with each other

    I would like to change all occurrences of a string (say string1) with another string (say string2) and vice-versa. To be precise I have a long document and these strings occur many times. What I currently do, is to replace string1-->string3, then…
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    GROUP BY + COUNT over lines in a region

    What is the simplest way of getting the number of distinct repeated in a region? For example, from THIS IS LINE A THIS IS LINE A THIS IS LINE A THIS IS LINE B THIS IS LINE B THIS IS LINE C I would like to get THIS IS LINE A 3 THIS IS LINE B …
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    query-replace in keyboard macro

    Let me define a keyboard-macro: I enter C-x (, then go to beginning with M-<, then type M-% to query-replace some occurrences of foo by bar. Out of 3 occurrences found, I replace only the last 2, then save with C-x C-s and finish the kbd-macro with…
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    How to refactor elisp programs using pattern matching on sexps with replacement?

    I'm looking for functionality that can do source-to-source transformation of elisp programs given a set of rewriting rules. For example, given a rule like: (set (make-local-variable (quote ?var) ?value)) => (setq-local ?var ?value) It will find…
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    Sane settings to show context when doing search and replace in org-mode

    If I run certain functions like isearch-forward (with C-s) in an org-mode buffer, all content become temporarily visible. When I end the search, headings automagically collapse the way they were before I searched. Nice. But if I run something like…
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    How to replace words in a region using iedit?

    I want to replace some words inside a region. I would like to use iedit more than query-replace, but found the following problems (probably because I don't understand its documentation): If I select a region, and then activate iedit, it takes the…
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    Replace string in buffer programatically

    I'm writing some elisp code and would like to replace some string with some another string in a buffer. Which elisp function does that ? I did a search on documentation for the related function but all I'm getting is the interactive commands. Would…
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