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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Does replace-match needs a literal TO-STRING?
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:20:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iokwxzhl.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)


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?

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten





             reply	other threads:[~2014-09-09 21:20 UTC|newest]

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2014-09-09 21:20 Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2014-09-09 21:26 ` Does replace-match needs a literal TO-STRING? Thorsten Jolitz

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