From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replace-regexp from A to B? Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 21:35:18 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86pny4ly4p.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86tvnhktf7.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535312322 11843 195.159.176.226 (26 Aug 2018 19:38:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 19:38:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 26 21:38:38 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fu0rs-0002wx-Og for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 21:38:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fu0tz-0003Kf-2m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:40:47 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: onLrbz09yV+MU3RaxdbMkg.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:n2/XL3Wr8iM8V3IWeVw0hXv54S4= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223628 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117753 Archived-At: Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Thanks, Yuri and Emanuel... I've seen that > a single MusiXTeX piece can be considered as > a tex paragraph, because no blank line should > be inserted into it... So I can perform my > replace-regexp with the `M-h' prefix so > applying it only to the current > paragraph/piece... So you can do this already with `replace-regexp'! Writing my previous answer, I had an itchy feeling it was already there somewhere... But who would have thought to look at replace-regexp of all places? Err, good that you found it anyway :) Technically speaking tho, and I think you already know this, `M-h' isn't a prefix to the next function but just a command to set the region. Once there, replace-regexp acts on it, but it doesn't matter in what manner you set it prior to that. Not to say there's anything wrong with using M-h, of course. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573