From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: String replace with lisp code
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:13:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E23CF23.4050908@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGdT1gpvyig=M7Q--B0PqiA=gihHMmBH6_6EtrijENN13nKe1g@mail.gmail.com>
Am 18.07.2011 07:36, schrieb C K Kashyap:
> Hi,
> During search/replace, how can I use the evaluation of a lisp expression as
> the substitution string?
>
> An example could be ... say I want to replace the occurrence of a certain
> word with the word prefixed with its occurrence count -
>
> For example - If I'd like to replace the occurrence of sea in -
> She sells sea shells on the sea shore
> with
> She sells (1)sea shells on the (2)sea shore.
>
> Or perhaps a more frequent use case of adding line number to each line
>
> (while I was typing this, I got the idea of using the keyboard macro to
> achieve this .... is there a better way though?)
>
> Regards,
> Kashyap
>
M-x query-replace-regexp,
\(sea\)
RET
\,(progn (or count (setq count 1))(setq count (1+ count))(concat "("
(number-to-string count) ")" \1))
RET
;;;;;;;;;;;;
\,EXPR
evaluates the expression and the takes the result for replacement.
Andreas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-18 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 5:36 String replace with lisp code C K Kashyap
2011-07-18 6:13 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2011-07-18 8:07 ` C K Kashyap
2011-07-22 0:39 ` Tim Landscheidt
2011-07-18 6:14 ` Teemu Likonen
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