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.
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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
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2008-08-15 8:40 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-08-15 9:05 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-08-15 9:08 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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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
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2008-08-15 8:01 ` Xah
2008-08-15 14:25 ` Malte Spiess
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