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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: execute function in replace-regexp
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2017 20:41:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lriaexd.fsf@jane> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864lrjwo0b.fsf@zoho.com>


On 2017-10-01, at 05:22, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:

> How can I execute a Lisp function, namely
> `downcase', on the match from `replace-regexp'?
>
> I Googled it and found [1] the syntax
>
>     \, (downcase \1)
>
> but doesn't get executed, just replaced as is.
>
> [1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/26492/how-do-i-lowercase-downcase-a-group-with-replace-regexp

BTW, did you see this:
http://mbork.pl/2013-09-18_Selective_replacement_in_LaTeX_documents_(en)
and this:
https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/evaluating-lisp-forms-regular-expressions
?

Hth,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-01 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-01  3:22 execute function in replace-regexp Emanuel Berg
2017-10-01  7:55 ` tomas
2017-10-01  8:44   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-10-01  8:49     ` tomas
2017-10-01 18:41 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2017-10-01 20:26   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-10-02  4:49     ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-10-02  8:11       ` Emanuel Berg
2017-10-02  7:08   ` tomas

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