From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: regexp repacement, how to present replacement to user?
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:20:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvodf1f4k1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y7e51fc6.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Mon\, 15 Oct 2007 01\:50\:01 +0300")
> (let ((from "\\([[:alpha:]]+\\)-\\([[:alpha:]]+\\)")
> (to "\\1 \\2"))
> (while (re-search-forward from nil t)
> (if (y-or-n-p (format "Replace %s with %s "
> (match-string 0)
> (replace-regexp-in-string from to (match-string 0))))
> (replace-match to nil nil))))
This work 99% with the last 1% being due to failure in boundary conditions
(e.g. if the pattern starts with "\\>").
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-15 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-13 14:00 regexp repacement, how to present replacement to user? Paul Pogonyshev
2007-10-14 22:50 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-15 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-10-15 5:57 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-15 20:28 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2007-10-16 23:54 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-17 6:06 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 19:25 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2007-10-20 13:53 ` [patch] " Paul Pogonyshev
2007-10-21 16:26 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-21 19:00 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2007-10-21 20:43 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-21 21:15 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2007-10-22 1:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-26 3:48 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-28 14:41 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2007-10-29 9:22 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-30 14:16 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-31 7:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-31 21:39 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2007-11-01 7:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-02 20:58 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2007-11-10 15:01 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2007-11-11 5:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-10 21:54 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-23 7:12 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-23 8:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-23 17:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-23 19:03 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-10-24 8:32 ` Richard Stallman
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