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From: fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford x8614)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,ingr.general
Subject: Can MicroEMACS do quoted digits in replace strings?
Message-ID: <7961@ingr.com>
Date: 14 Dec 89 04:05:46 GMT
Reply-To: uunet!ingr!b23b!dragon!keith (Keith Ford x8614)
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Vi and sed editors and take the following text:

last-name, first-name initial

and execute

s/\([^,]\), \(.*\)/\2 \1/

and end up with

first-name initial last-name

Is there a way to do this in MicroEMACS or EMACS.
GNU replies not needed.  This is something I do
on a PC also.  I thought MAGIC mode handle regular-
expressions, but these don't seem to work.
Hep me, Hep me!  *<:)
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