From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replace-regexp Date: Sun, 09 May 2021 04:48:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87k0o8vczw.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87tunf1mz5.fsf@zoho.eu> <87v97v6mxg.fsf@gnu.org> <87wnsaz9df.fsf@zoho.eu> <877dkaytwu.fsf@zoho.eu> <87h7jdxe3r.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40669"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:AK+fAsdwJzZCrbpahMyEGgtckxA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 09 04:49:00 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lfZV5-000AOm-Qw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 09 May 2021 04:48:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32974 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfZV4-0004cD-7U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 22:48:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58606) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfZUc-0004c0-Mm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 22:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:56528) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfZUb-0004QE-7B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 22:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lfZUX-0009o9-DX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2021 04:48:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129594 Archived-At: > Again, I don't think the user, not even the Lisp user, > should do this thing. I'll see if I can show you what > I mean, later. Here, what is wrong with this? (defun replace-regexp-1 (regexp to-string &optional beg end) (interactive `(,(read-from-minibuffer "regexp: ") ,(read-from-minibuffer "to string: ") ,@(if (use-region-p) (list (region-beginning) (region-end)) (list (point-min) (point-max))) )) (let ((beg-set (or beg (point-min))) (end-set (or end (point-max))) ) (save-excursion (goto-char end-set) (while (re-search-backward regexp beg-set t) (replace-match to-string) )))) Works interactively and non-interactively using the same good function... or? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal