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 "} ")
)
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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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