RegEx

Vim is an editor with endless capabilities. It can also generate hyperlinks in LaTeX language to other locally stored documents, thanks to its built-in Regular Expressions. For lawyers, this means linking a legal document with its related evidentiary materials.

Table of Contents What’s this joke? When is magic mode (default) better than nomagic? When is nomagic mode better than magic? The curious case of the extension names What’s this joke?

Table of Contents Primary purpose of the study. Secondary goal Vim: regular expression for the primary target And now: the reverse procedure. Primary purpose of the study. Initial status: series of inline names, separated by a semicolon followed by a space.

Table of Contents Preface Comparation Table Emacs: what you type is not what you see Short summary Preface This article is a summary of two previous posts that you can read at these pages:

Table of Contents Removing blank lines in Emacs using RegExp Removing blank lines and lines with whitespace Reducing blank lines to one line only using RegExp Reducing blank lines including whitespace to one blank line only After writing an article focusing on “Vim: Study on constructing Regular Expressions to delete or reduce blank lines with Global Command” I tried to match with a similar operation with Emacs.

Table of Contents Preface Vim and the Global Command The Global Command as “ex command” Use the Global Command to delete all completely empty lines Use of the Global Command to delete all lines containing white spaces And now: reduce the consecutive blank lines to one More and more difficult: reduce all consecutive lines, in which whitespace is present, to one Short closing comments Preface On the topic of this article you may find interesting the following one: “Vim and Regular Expressions for removing redundant whitespace”.

Table of Contents Introduction and structure of the article Eliminate redundant whitespace after the last word of lines. Eliminate redundant whitespace at the beginning of lines Merging the previous two formulas.

Table of Contents A non-preface about RegEx Vim and RegEx Emacs and RegEx(p) A non-preface about RegEx In my little experience as a LaTeX writer using Vim and Emacs, I sometimes use the extraordinary efficiency of RegEx, also known as RegExp or “Regular Expressions”.