From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: A variant of match-end, but after replacement? Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:06:24 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87h9p04ain.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1437307829 5755 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2015 12:10:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 12:10:29 +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 19 14:10:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGnQG-0007Vv-5t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:10:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51350 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGnQE-00058L-Qt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2015 08:10:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: individual.net pJMh5wyodzrGWAzgPlkWRgaUqWD7zARBOat0D11sbvq886LpwJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:YTg1ZjBlNGVlNDcyNGE1YjEyYTdjZWNhYmUxNjlkZGRlNTNjOWI3OA== sha1:fHqoXYd8CBrUiNKmcIYXhskqghI= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:213560 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105846 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski 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)) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk