Tag Archives: regular expressions

Vim regex-fu for LaTeX

Posted on September 24, 2009 by robfelty

When writing a beamer presentation with LaTeX, I organize my presentation into sections and subsections. Frequently, the title of the first frame (slide) in a subsection has the same name as the subsection. Let’s say I start off with the … Continue reading →

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Strange bracketing behavior in grep and sed

Posted on September 3, 2008 by robfelty

I finally figured out this thorny issue I have been dealing with for the last hour. In perl, if I can create a character class like “[\[\]a-f]” which matches any characters a-f, [, and ]. This does not work in … Continue reading →

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