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From: tmoody@sjuvax.UUCP (T. Moody)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Micro-emacs  replacement strings
Message-ID: <1538@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 18:40:10 GMT
Reply-To: tmoody@sjuvax.UUCP (T. Moody)
Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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The international language Esperanto has several letters with
diacritical marks.  These letters (consonants) are not ascii symbols, so
one convention is to place an 'x' after the letter that would otherwise
have a '^' over it.

Frequently, I need to convert a document of this sort to a LaTeX input
file, with the control string for printing that circumflex.  I am using
the micro-emacs 3.9i editor.  Thus, what I want is to be able to take a
string such as

	Cxu sxi gxemas?

... and convert it to this:

	\^{C}u \^{s}i \^{g}emas?

First, I turn on the exact and magic modes.  Next I globally replace all
occurrences of 'x' with '}'.  This gives me

	C}u s}i g}emas?

Now, it seems to me that what I *ought* to be able to do is search for
all strings that match 

	.}

and use as a replacement string

	\\^{&

right?  But it doesn't work out that way.  What am I doing wrong?
-- 
Todd Moody * {allegra|astrovax|bpa|burdvax}!sjuvax!tmoody * SJU Phil. Dept.
    "The wind is not moving.  The flag is not moving.  Mind is moving."