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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Subject: Re: replace-regexp question
Date: 26 Oct 2005 21:24:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86oe5cm90i.fsf@flame.pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85d5lsji7g.fsf@lola.goethe.zz

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
>> Is there a way to use the command replace-regexp to replace a number with
>> that number increased, say, by 15?  I tried
>>
>> C-M-% -?[0-9]+ RET (number-to-string (+ (string-to-number "\&") 15)) RET
>>
>> but it doesn't work because emacs interprets the second input to be
>> a string and so it doesn't evaluate it.  So I guess the question is
>> how can we use the result of evaluating a sexp for replacement text?
>>
>> Any help and/or pointers to documentation will be greatly
>> appreciated.
>
> The development version of Emacs would offer
> C-M-% -?[0-9]+ RET \,(+ \#& 15) RET

Oh, heh!  Very neat ;)

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-26 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.12812.1130346970.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-26 17:34 ` replace-regexp question David Kastrup
2005-10-26 18:24   ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2005-10-26 19:52     ` David Kastrup
2005-10-27  9:01       ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2005-10-27  9:32         ` David Kastrup
2005-10-27 11:47   ` Neon Absentius
2005-10-27 14:38   ` Sébastien Kirche
2005-10-27 15:08     ` David Kastrup
2005-10-27 17:24       ` Sébastien Kirche
2005-10-26 17:15 Neon Absentius
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-02 11:21 Chang Luo
2003-06-02 11:53 ` lawrence mitchell

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