From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, hufflen@lifc.univ-fcomte.fr
Subject: Re: Replacement
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:03:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871x268oeo.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <djr7dn$5d6$1@sea.gmane.org> (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:48:18 -0600")
>> Let us consider a source text for LateX and assume that we want to
>> replace the command for an accented letter by the accented letter
>> itself. For example, replacing \`{a} by à using the accurate
>> coding. If we look into the documentation and would like to
>> perform this operation by means of a Lisp code, that should be:
>> (beginning-of-buffer)
>> (while (re-search-forward "\\\B`{a}" nil t)
>> (replace-match "Ã " nil nil))
>> Unfortunately, the replacement is \`{a} ====> \Ã
>
> "\\\B..." is the same as "\\B...". I think you meant "\\\\B..."
Unquoted string "\\\\B" is `\\B' which matches two characters `\' and `B'.
I don't think this is what is wanted. But "\\\\\\B" will work fine, since,
when unquoted, it is equal to `\\\B' which matches one character `\',
and the empty string not at word boundary with `\B'.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-28 6:03 UTC|newest]
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2005-10-27 15:44 Replacement hufflen jean-michel
2005-10-27 18:48 ` Replacement Kevin Rodgers
2005-10-28 6:03 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
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2005-11-03 16:33 Replacement hufflen jean-michel
2005-11-03 17:59 ` Replacement Andreas Schwab
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