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From: harven <harven@free.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Then how to replace all my $$ ... $$ to \[ \] through search and replace?
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:49:50 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee75fde5-2e4f-47b6-9847-a1ccc098955d@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k5eh71tn.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de

> David Kastrup once mention this (or a similar example with
> `replace-regexp') on some newsgroup or mailing list.  I don't remember
> if it is possible to use this with M-x replace-... or
> query-replace... as well.

M-:(replace-regexp "\\$\\$" '("\\\[" "\\\]"))
It is in fact a feature of the perform-replace function.
Quoting the elisp manual section dealing with this function:

> The argument REPLACEMENTS specifies what to replace occurrences >  with.  If it is a string, that string is used.  It can also be a
>  list of strings, to be used in cyclic order.

>  If REPLACEMENTS is a cons cell, `(FUNCTION . DATA)', this means to
> call FUNCTION after each match to get the replacement text.  This
> function is called with two arguments: DATA, and the number of
> replacements already made.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-16 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-15  7:29 Then how to replace all my $$ ... $$ to \[ \] through search and replace? xiaopeng hu
2008-08-15  7:54 ` Tassilo Horn
     [not found] ` <mailman.16764.1218786903.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-15  8:40   ` Ralf Angeli
2008-08-15  9:05     ` Tassilo Horn
2008-08-15  9:08     ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found]     ` <mailman.16770.1218791143.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-15  9:34       ` Phil Carmody
2008-08-15 10:13         ` Ralf Angeli
2008-08-15 17:24           ` Reiner Steib
2008-08-16  1:18             ` Nikos Apostolakis
2008-08-16  9:21               ` Reiner Steib
2008-08-16 13:49                 ` harven [this message]
2008-08-16 15:45                   ` Reiner Steib
     [not found] <mailman.16760.1218785698.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-15  8:01 ` Xah
2008-08-15 14:25 ` Malte Spiess

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