From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Looking for generic text transformation utility library Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 20:26:15 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <868t6tijeg.fsf@zoho.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530556107 7013 195.159.176.226 (2 Jul 2018 18:28:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 18:28:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 02 20:28:23 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fa3Yk-0001hX-PE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 20:28:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34812 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fa3aq-0003wH-8W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 14:30:32 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cRcuMnzjCdtBkcQq4LWXQQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZUVB11DikJKfhaZtbdv9PENpcvs= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223198 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117321 Archived-At: Phil Eaton wrote: > I can't seem to find a way to do simple > programmatic transformations without writing > a good portion of code "generic text transformation utility", you mean like the Unix tool sed(1), the "stream editor for filtering and transforming text", or tr(1), to "translate or delete characters"? Can you provide me/us with an example of a text, as well as the end result you want it to be translated into? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573