* restricting query-replace to region in emacs lisp script
@ 2007-01-24 13:09 conscious
2007-01-24 14:37 ` David Hansen
2007-01-24 16:11 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: conscious @ 2007-01-24 13:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I am writing a lisp routine to implement a sequence of query-replace
operations on a region. Before I run the query-replace I define a
region, e.g. by mark-paragraph. However, other than in normal
interactive operation in transient-mark-mode, the query-replace does
not restrict the query-replace to the marked region. Does anybody know
how to restrict the region for query-replacing with a lisp-routine?
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* Re: restricting query-replace to region in emacs lisp script
2007-01-24 13:09 restricting query-replace to region in emacs lisp script conscious
@ 2007-01-24 14:37 ` David Hansen
2007-01-24 16:11 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: David Hansen @ 2007-01-24 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On 24 Jan 2007 05:09:36 -0800 conscious wrote:
> I am writing a lisp routine to implement a sequence of query-replace
> operations on a region. Before I run the query-replace I define a
> region, e.g. by mark-paragraph. However, other than in normal
> interactive operation in transient-mark-mode, the query-replace does
> not restrict the query-replace to the marked region. Does anybody know
> how to restrict the region for query-replacing with a lisp-routine?
`narrow-to-region'
David
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* Re: restricting query-replace to region in emacs lisp script
2007-01-24 13:09 restricting query-replace to region in emacs lisp script conscious
2007-01-24 14:37 ` David Hansen
@ 2007-01-24 16:11 ` Stefan Monnier
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2007-01-24 16:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> I am writing a lisp routine to implement a sequence of query-replace
> operations on a region. Before I run the query-replace I define a
> region, e.g. by mark-paragraph. However, other than in normal
> interactive operation in transient-mark-mode, the query-replace does
> not restrict the query-replace to the marked region. Does anybody know
> how to restrict the region for query-replacing with a lisp-routine?
Better not use query-replace. The docstring of `perform-replace' shows the
code to use instead. This code uses re-search-forward which can take
a `limit' argument to tell it where to stop.
Stefan
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