From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp optimization question Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 19:45:43 -0600 Message-ID: References: <875de456-396d-4c4e-9d99-2ccb5a4a94d8@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-9; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210297835 20532 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2008 01:50:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 01:50:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 09 03:51:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JuHlL-0003ZN-Ql for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 03:51:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58347 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JuHkd-0007PO-JN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 21:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JuHkN-0007PI-3Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 21:50:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JuHkK-0007P6-NU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 21:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36203 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JuHkK-0007P3-Hk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 21:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:36711 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JuHkK-0005V2-1d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 21:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JuHkI-00063k-Fr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 01:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.29.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 May 2008 01:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 May 2008 01:50:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) In-Reply-To: <875de456-396d-4c4e-9d99-2ccb5a4a94d8@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53835 Archived-At: harven wrote: > hi, > you can save some typing by using an alist. Here is what i use to > convert > accented-letters into html and back. > > (defun accent-html (prefix) > "Accented letter translation é -> é. > With an argument, reverse é <- é. > Works on the whole buffer" > (interactive "P") > (save-excursion > (let ((association > '(("É" . "É") ("á" . "á") ("à" . "à") > ("â" . "â") ("ä" . "ä") (""" . "ã") > ("é" . "é") ("è" . "è") ("ê" . "ê") > ("ë" . "ë") ("í" . "í") ("ì" . "ì") > ("î" . "î") ("ï" . "ï") ("ñ" . "ñ") > ("ó" . "ó") ("ò" . "ò") ("ô" . "ô") > ("ö" . "ö") ("ý" . "õ") ("ú" . > "ú") > ("ù" . "ù") ("û" . "û") ("ü" . "ü") > ("ç" . "ç"))) > (case-fold-search nil)) > (dolist (paire association) > (when prefix > (setq paire (cons (cdr paire) (car paire)))) > (goto-char (point-min)) > (while (search-forward (car paire) nil t) > (replace-match (cdr paire) nil t)))))) Even faster than an alist is a hash table. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA