From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improve `replace-regexp-in-string' ergonomics? 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:275290 Archived-At: Yuri Khan writes: > However, I have a hypothesis that what users really want is =E2=80=9CI ha= ve > 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=E2=80=9D, without thinking about intermedia= te > 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. --=20 (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no