From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: execute function in replace-regexp
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 09:55:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171001075500.GC16509@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864lrjwo0b.fsf@zoho.com>
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On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 05:22:28AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> How can I execute a Lisp function, namely
> `downcase', on the match from `replace-regexp'?
>
> I Googled it and found [1] the syntax
>
> \, (downcase \1)
>
> but doesn't get executed, just replaced as is.
- There should be no space between the comma and the paren:
\,(...)
- I *think* you should string-quote the \1 (the \1 itself gets,
AFAIR, replaced literally: to have correct elisp you need
quotes, but I might be wrong on that)
This would make:
\,(downcase "\1")
Cheers
- -- t
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-01 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-01 3:22 execute function in replace-regexp Emanuel Berg
2017-10-01 7:55 ` tomas [this message]
2017-10-01 8:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-10-01 8:49 ` tomas
2017-10-01 18:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-10-01 20:26 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-10-02 4:49 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-10-02 8:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-10-02 7:08 ` tomas
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