From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp: Replacing dots in strings (. -> \.) Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:07:00 -0700 Message-ID: <871wfjszmz.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: <20070708111051.GA15999@randomnode.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183907323 6047 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2007 15:08:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:08:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 08 17:08:40 2007 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I7YNM-0008Ou-Bc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:08:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7YNL-0005i2-Rh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:08:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7YN7-0005hc-2L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:08:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7YN5-0005hP-MA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7YN5-0005hM-Ha for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I7YN5-0003PE-01 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I7YMx-00062w-8F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:08:15 +0200 Original-Received: from q-static-138-125.avvanta.com ([206.124.138.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:08:15 +0200 Original-Received: from offby1 by q-static-138-125.avvanta.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:08:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: q-static-138-125.avvanta.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ksbZrehm4PCt+UCkUcl/0nuHGRs= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45542 Archived-At: Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > (replace-regexp-in-string "\\." "\\\." "aaa . bbb" t t) > ==> "aaa \\. bbb" To preserve your sanity, and that of anyone who reads your code, I beg you to use the fabulous "rx" package (it's already in your Emacs -- nothing to install!) (replace-regexp-in-string (rx ".") "\\." "aaa . bbb" t t) ==> "aaa \\. bbb" -- Покажи мне твой .emacs, и я скажу, кто ты. -- Russian Proverb