From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: execute function in replace-regexp Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2017 20:41:50 +0200 Message-ID: <874lriaexd.fsf@jane> References: <864lrjwo0b.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506883365 30819 195.159.176.226 (1 Oct 2017 18:42:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 18:42:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 01 20:42:40 2017 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 1dyjCJ-0006zX-BL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2017 20:42:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49516 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dyjCI-00037l-K9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2017 14:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34850) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dyjBq-00037T-Lz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2017 14:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dyjBn-0001fA-UO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2017 14:42:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:39145) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dyjBn-0001ec-MO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2017 14:42:07 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AC8E678B; Sun, 1 Oct 2017 20:42:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Z8WSKWwRlzMR; Sun, 1 Oct 2017 20:41:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B3D22E64CA; Sun, 1 Oct 2017 20:41:57 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <864lrjwo0b.fsf@zoho.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 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:114492 Archived-At: On 2017-10-01, at 05:22, Emanuel Berg 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