From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Replacement Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:48:18 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20051027154423.8C17332F28@lifc.univ-fcomte.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130439235 6631 80.91.229.2 (27 Oct 2005 18:53:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:53:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 27 20:53:54 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVCsK-0006sa-Bw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:53:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVCsJ-0000tR-LT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:53:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVCsE-0000r5-8R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:53:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVCsA-0000ny-NP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVCsA-0000nh-HM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:53:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EVCsA-0004hK-GE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:53:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EVCpz-00063K-DK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:50:55 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:50:55 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:50:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20051027154423.8C17332F28@lifc.univ-fcomte.fr> X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:13737 Archived-At: 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