From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: uzibalqa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Apply replacement on word occurring at point using a lisp function Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 20:28:42 +0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: uzibalqa Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29379"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 12 22:29:43 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 1oMbHr-0007RY-5a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2022 22:29:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52724 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oMbHp-0000vD-Dh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44820) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oMbHF-0000un-5X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-4324.protonmail.ch ([185.70.43.24]:20183) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oMbH8-0001CX-09 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:29:02 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=proton.me; s=276p5txoxzbsziiw47yqohr33m.protonmail; t=1660336135; x=1660595335; bh=1BzChd6mctzL/TXZq2QsF+9149UnDrjWID4pINwoG40=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To: References:Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To: Feedback-ID:Message-ID; b=bp3hjLOgyZ8A/WBABMqBEGWOO4Ep6o06j0gjdYW+pv4vrMjRJ8kOn3dq2y5RmKdQw s7gMsJXoIUDmTDDSxF2JTM7N+PeuAlpXQI+MDdNaSZK8xzW3wFpgjvi9zLX7n5Q4gN N7LxVo39kOaufF+twvckYGvqeAkC4gnNomDdy1CJy6p+sfhZj/Dxiwox7g9fb8pCW0 Y+RDjeVE4mVbKpd17Gw0N03O2AjcKSqmdAj/I2RYdrimg9e2DrczYOMrvtsqAzSz8o dFUzsEQct+aJAnkjAQeEgRsuR8U5tFCTPaQVbzKg3y/WNSnhPViVRM5UjymVa7gtqM an3HJ0RsUCvxg== In-Reply-To: Feedback-ID: 52887082:user:proton Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.43.24; envelope-from=uzibalqa@proton.me; helo=mail-4324.protonmail.ch X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, 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:138830 Archived-At: ------- Original Message ------- On Friday, August 12th, 2022 at 8:24 PM, Jean Louis wrot= e: > * uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor help-gnu-emacs@gn= u.org [2022-08-12 22:49]: > > > I want to insert the letter `k' for words with initial` cog', `col',` c= om', `con',` cor', `coun',` cum'." > > > > For this I have written > > > > (replace-regexp "\\<\\(co[glmnr]\\|coun\\|cum\\)" "k") > > > > What I want to do is apply the replacement on the word occurring at > > point using a lisp function. How can this be achieved? > > > (thing-at-point 'word) is to find word at point > > Then you may find cursor position and replace the region with new word. > > This is the way to go: > > (defun change-word-at-point () > (interactive) > (let* ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'word)) > (word (buffer-substring (car bounds) (cdr bounds))) > (point (point))) This is what I want to do "cognize" changed to "knize" "collect" to "klect" "corrupt" to "krupt" "cumulatively" to "kulatively" Meaning that the initial matches of words as defined in regex are replaced = with the letter `k'.