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Replace expressions: enhance functionality when searching in filled paragraphs

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From: linuxfever <linuxfever <at> yahoo.gr>
To: Bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10885: Replace expressions: enhance functionality when
	searching in filled paragraphs
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:10:39 -0800 (PST)

Glenn Morris-3 wrote:
> 
> 
> You can use query-replace-regexp for this.
> 
> M-x query-replace-regexp RET \(replace\)\([ ^I^J]*\)\(this\) RET
> Done\2that RET
> 
> 

Thanks, but this command does not seem to work for me. Moreover, it is still
quite involved with all the extra characters between the two words, and the
idea is to avoid this complication.
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