From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Advanced query-replace-regexp in code
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:32:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c1vqa62hk.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f3f72811-6305-4f62-98af-3a86d6646e9f@e20g2000vbc.googlegroups.com
Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> writes:
> I can't get the following example to work programmatically.
>
> M-x replace-regexp
> Replace regexp: \(\w+\)
> Replace regexp with: \,(capitalize \1)
>
> Is this only possible in interactive query-replace?
> If so should I use a combination of while(), looking-at(), re-search-
> forward(), replace-match(), match-string() etc.
Yes, for non-interactive use, it's advised to do
(while (re-search-forward ...)
(let ((m1 (match-string ...))
...)
(delete-region ...)
(insert (format "%s" (your-sexp m1 ...)))))
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-27 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-27 14:03 Advanced query-replace-regexp in code Nordlöw
2009-05-27 14:32 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2009-05-28 1:19 ` Barry Margolin
2009-05-28 4:57 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-05-28 7:04 ` Barry Margolin
2009-05-28 19:36 ` Johan Bockgård
[not found] ` <mailman.8013.1243539406.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-29 2:14 ` Barry Margolin
2009-05-30 6:34 ` Nordlöw
2009-05-30 18:55 ` Johan Bockgård
[not found] ` <mailman.8166.1243709727.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-31 1:57 ` Barry Margolin
2009-05-28 19:50 ` harven
2009-08-02 16:19 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-02 17:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-08-02 20:25 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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