From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Improve `replace-regexp-in-string' ergonomics?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 08:36:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kadw1z7.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8X64-MMx3OtbOCWWkkrRnb27RobY6Qe9O0CP9N-ZVYvKw@mail.gmail.com> (Yuri Khan's message of "Wed, 22 Sep 2021 12:22:05 +0700")
Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
> However, I have a hypothesis that what users really want is “I have
> this list of pattern/replacement pairs, and I want to go through each
> occurrence of each pattern in the original text, and replace them with
> their respective replacements”, without thinking about intermediate
> buffer contents.
That's a good point. That points towards a new `regexp-replace'
function that takes all the replacement pairs and does the right thing
here instead of chaining independent calls.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-22 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-22 4:36 Improve `replace-regexp-in-string' ergonomics? Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-22 5:22 ` Yuri Khan
2021-09-22 6:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-09-22 7:47 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-09-22 5:24 ` Po Lu
2021-09-22 6:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-22 10:56 ` Po Lu
2021-09-22 20:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-23 0:11 ` Po Lu
2021-09-22 7:33 ` Adam Porter
2021-09-22 8:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-22 7:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-09-22 8:14 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-22 8:21 ` Adam Porter
2021-09-22 18:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-22 18:24 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-09-22 22:56 ` Adam Porter
2021-09-22 23:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-09-22 20:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-22 10:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-22 20:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-22 22:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-22 23:24 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-22 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-22 19:30 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-09-22 20:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-22 20:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-23 2:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-05 16:18 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-12 6:53 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-12 12:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-12 12:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-12 12:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-12 13:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-12 13:32 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-10-12 15:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-12 13:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-10-12 19:16 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-12 20:44 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-10-13 7:57 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-13 8:41 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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