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From: Joe Corneli <jcorneli@mail.ma.utexas.edu>
Subject: replace-in-string  and  backward-delete-char   [help request!]
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 00:06:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D72EEA30-FABB-11D6-BF99-000393AB0C3C@math.utexas.edu> (raw)

Hello --

I am running XEmacs version 21.5  (beta4) "bamboo"  for
darwin 6.0.   I expect that won't be hugely relevant but
thought I should mention it before proceeding.

I wrote the following code (below). It has 2 problems. The first
is that replace-in-string does not seem to have any effect.
The second is that backward-delete-char copies the deleted stuff
to the kill ring even though I ask it not to (at least
I think that I'm interpreting the documentation properly by
adding an explicit "nil" at the end. -- Behavior is the same
for me when I put nothing after the "3").

Suggestions?  I'm open to someone rewriting the code entirely
if he or she has a better way to do this. I just want it
to work....

Thanks,
Joe Corneli

(defun cite-last-n-words (n)
"Copy last ARG words to point and wrap with TeX citation markup."
   (interactive "p")
   (backward-kill-word n)
   (yank)
   (insert " \\cite{")
   (kill-new
   ; stuff I can't get to work properly--------
     (replace-in-string
      (replace-in-string
       (prin1-to-string (yank))
       " " "_")
      "[\n]" "_")
   ; --------stuff I can't get to work properly
    )
   (yank)

   ;; need to rid of trailing nil... but I don't like it being added to
   ;; kill ring even though I indicate I don't want it there.
   (backward-delete-char 3 nil)
   (delete-horizontal-space)
   (insert "} ")
   )

             reply	other threads:[~2002-11-18  6:06 UTC|newest]

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2002-11-18  6:06 Joe Corneli [this message]
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2002-11-18 19:01 ` replace-in-string and backward-delete-char [help request!] Michael Slass

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