From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: general perform-replace REPLACEMENTS arg for regexpquery-replacement? Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:51:59 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <873ahq3r0k.fsf@jurta.org> References: <005901c94752$06ca6e70$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <005b01c94771$e8129be0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <877i73p9ia.fsf@jurta.org> <001a01c94853$5a0ee1e0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226962457 24340 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2008 22:54:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:54:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 23:55:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L2D00-0005Kk-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:55:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59615 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2Cyr-0006BM-Vb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:54:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2CxH-0005Sx-5o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:52:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2CxF-0005S9-GU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:52:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34282 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2CxF-0005S0-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:52:25 -0500 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]:2405) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2CxE-0000KU-RR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:52:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1L2CxC-000CU7-Eq; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:52:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <001a01c94853$5a0ee1e0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:25:18 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: c2436a487120708c9e0f2b31fdd4cc45 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 5744 [Nov 18 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: common white list} X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: white ip list X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Trusted X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: trusted X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105767 Archived-At: > Actually, after sending the mail and realizing that the sequence would always be > not just \@ but \@(, I thought (and think) that perhaps simply \( would be > better. This is about passing a list. So I'd propose that. > > C-M-% RET abc RET \("" "") > > WDOT? Then we can perfectly use just the current syntax `\,' without inventing a new one, e.g. C-M-% RET abc RET \,'("" "") The only place currently preventing this is prin1-to-string that turns a list into a string. We could change it to keep the list intact. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/