From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: replace matches in any string Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:29:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87ab3gfb41.fsf@hati.baby-gnu.org> <87r5wrgg8w.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87y6gvwryp.fsf@hati.baby-gnu.org> <87d3y7p1ie.fsf@gnu.org> <87633y7v02.fsf@hati.baby-gnu.org> <87vdbyccgg.fsf@hati.baby-gnu.org> <87eiikdfub.fsf@hati.baby-gnu.org> <87ocf18ntz.fsf@hati.baby-gnu.org> <87aaq2uldu.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87y6dg5vv2.fsf@hati.baby-gnu.org> <878w4skgqn.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87sk1tk1px.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283427003 14808 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2010 11:30:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 11:30:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 02 13:29:59 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Or7zQ-00077c-ES for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:29:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47859 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Or7zP-00085e-Nc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:29:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47715 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Or7zJ-00085Z-3J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Or7zI-0001jT-3t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:29:48 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm2.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.2]:39404) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Or7zH-0001j2-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:29:48 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost4.adm.correo ([10.20.102.125]) by IMPaqm2.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id 1iRt1f0092iL0W23MnVloe; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:29:45 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([88.26.147.200]) by IMPmailhost4.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id 1nVi1f0054Kf5Uw1knVinq; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:29:45 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 16D28660DF; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:29:41 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87sk1tk1px.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:55:22 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 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:129581 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70339 Archived-At: > I haven't heard any comments on this. It's blocking a Gnus feature so > I'd really like to get it done; the code is ready[1] so I simply need to > know if this functionality should be in Emacs or only in Gnus. I do not understand the feature you request. Rather than code that supposedly implements the feature, try to post examples of uses you'd like to see work. I have the impression that what you want is already provided by replace-match, tho only in the case when the match was performed on a string rather than in a buffer. Stefan