From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improve `replace-regexp-in-string' ergonomics? Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:22:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87mto4tl6y.fsf@gnus.org> References: <878rzpw7jo.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40722"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 22 22:23:05 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mT8ll-000AO0-Ou for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:23:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59642 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mT8lj-00068N-Rj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:23:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44030) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mT8l5-0005Rn-Ep for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:22:23 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2]:51632) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mT8l3-0001Rd-Qt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:22:23 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=d+XNJD0WDNFT1a73u50wtboP01zSyHUsC12uUNFt1CY=; b=QrHqewjGo1IC78kL3+boAunRG3 GcQer/6Pq8nHVkFPWXc0pFfc0BI9xW+dan13R4UCOQPssFrrUswsOOxdWCDtzcnyD7Z3bQDySWec8 xy0SzNfPzzAHS5NIjZx+w0TGH7E3p8zKYS+S/+jWWAgj/2u3E7Gly2Qq/y9+Rs9xKvuI=; Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=elva) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mT8kw-0006x2-LR; Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:22:18 +0200 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAgMAAAAqbBEUAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAACBj SFJNAAB6JgAAgIQAAPoAAACA6AAAdTAAAOpgAAA6mAAAF3CculE8AAAADFBMVEU5EhmlHxbGoGj/ ///XVDo6AAAAAWJLR0QDEQxM8gAAAAd0SU1FB+UJFhQTIyqYce8AAAFBSURBVCjPdZHBaoNAEIb/ CWspPa2wPkBLC8GnWCFCjy7s9h2Sp0g9hB7bS6E9GQ9B5yk7u0bjpeNlPgc//hkBwq6Ch86ogiYo C2O1IkKB4Br7FvxXXcE1+3HYf18uh/cCzo38cWD+3Qv4PNxrUqSaSkMehViqAvIZdhbwRu8SIFgE H1zqG29Q+6BjT85LDJOHNKnq/2xqstUJrEu2ABoWW643PFxtWdB05sd8smUaZ+5kX1ku2lhAbCZl Y/7E1WaIuYq2TGwGPGSLTYDyadOMBFK2aBMYsbKNbrHhMNDNVkaYbSXTnA0ywZQtbwS6tKkxhaxZ HuUiFt7b6YZQ0Ya5xFYsMLmWKtTckfxavbwXm13AxOEN9Op7aLtSF3Y1eX59+bk/ndq+63s5BfOW e247OUopwPxUJsB2w5uH46blu/YPkR5ipM53k5UAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6Y3JlYXRlADIwMjEtMDkt MjJUMjA6MTk6MzUrMDA6MDCWKTKoAAAAJXRFWHRkYXRlOm1vZGlmeQAyMDIxLTA5LTIyVDIwOjE5 OjM1KzAwOjAw53SKFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Now-Playing: Jerry Harrison's _The Red And The Black_: "Slink" In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:14:17 -0400") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2; envelope-from=larsi@gnus.org; helo=quimby.gnus.org X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:275341 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > It'd be nice to have a front-end that lets you write a kind of lex-like > set of rules, but I think it'd be important for that front-end to allow > *computing* the replacement rather than only selecting it based on the > matched regexp. Something like > > (foo-replace results > ("\\[" "(") > ("\\]" ")") > ("[[:lower:]]+" (upcase (match-string 0))) > ("siglo \\([0-9]+\\)" > (integer-to-roman (string-to-number (match-string 1)))) > ...) Perfect. That looks like a really nice function signature to me. Perhaps without the parentheses if there's only one replacement to be done. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no