From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: restricting query-replace to region in emacs lisp script
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:11:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3b608kze.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1169644176.300408.69470@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com
> I am writing a lisp routine to implement a sequence of query-replace
> operations on a region. Before I run the query-replace I define a
> region, e.g. by mark-paragraph. However, other than in normal
> interactive operation in transient-mark-mode, the query-replace does
> not restrict the query-replace to the marked region. Does anybody know
> how to restrict the region for query-replacing with a lisp-routine?
Better not use query-replace. The docstring of `perform-replace' shows the
code to use instead. This code uses re-search-forward which can take
a `limit' argument to tell it where to stop.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-24 16:11 UTC|newest]
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2007-01-24 13:09 restricting query-replace to region in emacs lisp script conscious
2007-01-24 14:37 ` David Hansen
2007-01-24 16:11 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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