From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: replace regex takes long
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:11:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uk69pzbql.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1F82E20F-F5E5-47BD-8CB5-D30EC99C2B1A@Web.DE> (message from Peter Dyballa on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:17:26 +0200)
> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:17:26 +0200
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> replace.el explains:
>
> This function is usually the wrong thing to use in a Lisp program.
> What you probably want is a loop like this:
> (while (re-search-forward REGEXP nil t)
> (replace-match TO-STRING nil nil))
> which will run faster and will not set the mark or print anything."
This explanation is not really relevant in this case, since the OP
did, in fact, invoke query-replace-regexp interactively, not from a
Lisp program.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-16 17:11 UTC|newest]
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2006-04-15 21:29 replace regex takes long Gary Wessle
2006-04-15 22:36 ` Peter Dyballa
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2006-04-15 23:09 ` Gary Wessle
2006-04-15 23:35 ` Gary Wessle
2006-04-16 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-16 10:17 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-04-16 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.473.1145168872.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-16 11:53 ` Gary Wessle
2006-04-16 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
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