From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A variant of match-end, but after replacement?
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:25:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1zojn4e.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2twjq0r.fsf@mbork.pl>
On 2015-07-19, at 14:22, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
> On 2015-07-19, at 14:06, Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>
>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I perform search using string-match, and then do the replacement using
>>> replace-match. Now I'd like to know the position of the end of my
>>> replacement, so that I know where to start the next search (since I'm
>>> coding a variant of replace-regexp-in-string). Is there anything like
>>> that in Emacs, or should I just concatenate the parts before and after
>>> the match with the match in-between instead of using replace-match, so
>>> that I can calculate that position myself?
>>
>> (let ((old-end (prog1 (match-end 1)
>> (replace-match "newtext" t t nil 1))))
>> (do-something old-end))
>
> Nope - I'm doing search and replacement in a string, not in a buffer...
BTW: this probably won't work in a buffer either, since match-end
returns a number, not a marker (as I thought).
> Thanks anyway
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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2015-07-19 12:06 ` A variant of match-end, but after replacement? Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-19 12:22 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-19 13:25 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-07-20 10:46 ` Nicolas Richard
[not found] ` <mailman.7147.1437308571.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-19 12:30 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-19 13:20 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-19 13:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-19 19:57 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.7150.1437312076.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-19 13:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-19 19:58 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.7160.1437335923.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-19 20:18 ` Barry Margolin
2015-07-19 22:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-20 0:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.7165.1437350800.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-20 0:33 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-19 11:49 Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-19 20:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
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