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Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Hadron,

> I want something like this to work on a buffer region
>
> (defun remove-vowels-region(te)
>   "Remove the vowels"
>   (interactive "sTe:")
>   (replace-regexp-in-string "[aeiouAEIOU]" "" te)
> )

Try that:

(defun remove-vowels-region (start end)
  (interactive "r")
  (replace-regexp "[aeiouAEIOU]" "" nil start end))

Bye,
Tassilo
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