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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Replacement
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:48:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <djr7dn$5d6$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051027154423.8C17332F28@lifc.univ-fcomte.fr>

hufflen jean-michel wrote:
>    Dear GNU Emacs developers,
> 
>    I think I found a bug in the replacement operation.  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
> Ã  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..." or more
likely "\\B\\...".

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-27 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-27 15:44 Replacement hufflen jean-michel
2005-10-27 18:48 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2005-10-28  6:03   ` Replacement Juri Linkov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-03 16:33 Replacement hufflen jean-michel
2005-11-03 17:59 ` Replacement Andreas Schwab

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