From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: replace-regexp question
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:34:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85d5lsji7g.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.12812.1130346970.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
> Is there a way to use the command replace-regexp to replace a number with
> that number increased, say, by 15? I tried
>
> C-M-% -?[0-9]+ RET (number-to-string (+ (string-to-number "\&") 15)) RET
>
> but it doesn't work because emacs interprets the second input to be
> a string and so it doesn't evaluate it. So I guess the question is
> how can we use the result of evaluating a sexp for replacement text?
>
> Any help and/or pointers to documentation will be greatly
> appreciated.
The development version of Emacs would offer
C-M-% -?[0-9]+ RET \,(+ \#& 15) RET
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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2005-10-26 17:34 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-10-26 18:24 ` replace-regexp question Giorgos Keramidas
2005-10-26 19:52 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-27 9:01 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2005-10-27 9:32 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-27 11:47 ` Neon Absentius
2005-10-27 14:38 ` Sébastien Kirche
2005-10-27 15:08 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-27 17:24 ` Sébastien Kirche
2005-10-26 17:15 Neon Absentius
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2003-06-02 11:21 Chang Luo
2003-06-02 11:53 ` lawrence mitchell
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