Given a buffer full of English text, answer the following questions:
a. How would you change every instance of his to hers?
b. How would you make this change only in the final paragraph?
c. Is there a way to look at every usage in context before changing it?
d. How would you deal with the possibility that His might begin a
sentence?
a. Give the command META-< META-x replace-stringRETURN hisRETURN hers.
b. Give the command META-> META-{ followed by META-x replace-stringRETURN
hisRETURN hers.
c. Give the command META-< META-x query-replaceRETURN hisRETURN hers, and type y
or n to replace or not replace each highlighted occurrence of his.
d. Give the command META-< query-replace-regexpRETURN \([Hh]\)isRETURN \1ers,
and type y or n to replace or not replace each highlighted occurrence of his
or His. Refer to “Bracketing Expressions” on page 1070 for more informa-
tion on the use of \(...\) in a regular expression.
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