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: Shortening words in region Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:42:22 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20085"; 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 Sat Aug 13 19:46:02 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 1oMvCz-00051r-9c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2022 19:46:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36996 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oMvCy-0005Jt-6i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2022 13:46:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42746) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oMvBR-0005JN-0R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2022 13:44:25 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:50131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oMvBP-0007in-5x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2022 13:44:24 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.81.106.28]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000B5B05.0000000062F7E2F2.00001C28; Sat, 13 Aug 2022 10:44:17 -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: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham 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:138846 Archived-At: * uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [2022-08-13 19:34]: > Have been working on shortening words. But doing so on a word by > word basis is quite slow. Thusly I am writing a version that accepts > a selected region. > > This function uses a selected region, then changes initial parts oy > words (replacing matching cog, col, com, con, cor, coun, and cum > with the letter "k". (rx (zero-or-more (or "col" "cog" "com" "con" "cor" "coun" "cum"))) ⇒ "\\(?:c\\(?:o\\(?:un\\|[glmnr]\\)\\|um\\)\\)*" {C-h f rx RET} -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/