From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Apply replacement on word occurring at point using a lisp function Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 23:37:56 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4427"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-06-11) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: uzibalqa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 12 22:40:01 2022 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 1oMbRo-0000tv-B7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2022 22:40:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54966 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oMbRn-0003eK-BT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:39:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46194) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oMbRF-0003dr-DT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:54527) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oMbRC-0002dc-Ox for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:39:24 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.4.196]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000B5B05.0000000062F6BA71.0000213C; Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:39:12 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: uzibalqa , "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:138831 Archived-At: * uzibalqa [2022-08-12 23:29]: > This is what I want to do > > "cognize" changed to "knize" > "collect" to "klect" > "corrupt" to "krupt" > "cumulatively" to "kulatively" How I read it, you wish to change some words, I understand above statement. > Meaning that the initial matches of words as defined in regex are > replaced with the letter `k'. The last above statement is contradictory to your explanation above. If there are just few words, then you could use this: (defun my-get-them () (let* ((point (point))) (goto-char 1) (replace-regexp "cognize" "knize") (replace-regexp "collect" "klect") (replace-regexp "corrupt" "krup") (replace-regexp "cumulatively" "kulatively") (goto-char point))) -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/