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In article <BADRI.91May14150327@elysium.warren.mentor.com> badri@warren.mentorg.com (Badri Lokanathan) writes:
-> I am running Micro Emacs 3.10 alpha on a Mac.
-> I encountered a couple of problems with the replace command:
-> 
-> (1) Suppose I need to do two global substitutions on a file:
->     - Insert XX at the beginning of each line
->     - delete YY at the end of each line
-> 
-> I set mode to MAGIC, then execute replace ^ with XX. Now when I try
-> to replace YY$ with <nothing>, I am unable to get rid of the former
-> replacement string XX.
-> 
-> Of course, I can always switch the order of execution, but that is not
-> the answer I am looking for :-)

You could always try replacing YY<NL> with <NL>

Or define a macro which does:

        set $replace ""

and then bind that macro to an unused key such as ^_

-> (2) Is it possible to "remember" a matched pattern and interpolate it
-> into the replacement pattern (ala vi)? For those who are familiar with
-> vi, how does one achieve something like
-> 
-> s/\([a-z0-9]*\)_\([a-z0-9]*\)/\2_\1/

I don't think it is possible. You just have the ability to insert the
WHOLE of the matched pattern using &

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Tony.
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