From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does replace-match needs a literal TO-STRING? Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:26:56 +0200 Message-ID: <87egvkxz6n.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87iokwxzhl.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410298072 30931 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2014 21:27:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 21:27:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 09 23:27:44 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRSwt-0006KM-Fw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:27:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRSwt-0006wv-3n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:27:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRSwb-0006wq-CD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRSwT-0006yk-SQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:27:21 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57381) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRSwT-0006yf-MD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:27:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRSwT-00063Z-0Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:27:13 +0200 Original-Received: from e178059041.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.59.41]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:27:13 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178059041.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:27:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178059041.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4f0v6ITjTjTfL3c39o+qOquWHjc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99752 Archived-At: Thorsten Jolitz writes: > Hi List, > > I try to use > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > (when (search-forward FROM-STRING nil t) > (replace-match TO-STRING nil t)) > #+END_SRC > > in a temp-buffer, and it works when TO-STRING is literal like "foo", but > not when its a function that builds and then returns the string "foo". > > Is that a known restriction or am I doing something wrong? Ok, got it, I have to save-match-data before calling the string building function (that might regexp search itself), then it works. Sorry for the noise. -- cheers, Thorsten