From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Advanced query-replace-regexp in code Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:32:07 +0200 Organization: Anevia SAS Message-ID: <7c1vqa62hk.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243435632 16580 80.91.229.12 (27 May 2009 14:47:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:47:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 27 16:47:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M9KPN-0004QJ-UK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 16:47:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56739 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M9KPN-0007v6-BM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 10:47:09 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed1-a.proxad.net!nnrp19-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZDM3MGVjZWYyNWM4MTI3NTczZDdlMjBjYWI2NDRjNmVlMjQ0MDA1OA== Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 May 2009 16:32:07 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.170.236.224 Original-X-Trace: 1243434727 news-3.free.fr 23728 88.170.236.224:43469 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169540 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64774 Archived-At: Nordlöw writes: > I can't get the following example to work programmatically. > > M-x replace-regexp > Replace regexp: \(\w+\) > Replace regexp with: \,(capitalize \1) > > Is this only possible in interactive query-replace? > If so should I use a combination of while(), looking-at(), re-search- > forward(), replace-match(), match-string() etc. Yes, for non-interactive use, it's advised to do (while (re-search-forward ...) (let ((m1 (match-string ...)) ...) (delete-region ...) (insert (format "%s" (your-sexp m1 ...))))) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__