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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Query replace regex with 2 alternatives
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:19:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vccd39aj.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ictxrxeief.fsf@home.home

Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:

>> Or maybe this is what you mean:
>>
>> &lt;\|&gt;
>> Replace with:
>> \,(if (string-equal \& "&lt;" "[" "]"))
>
> This is what I was asking for.
> I pasted both values into emacs and the latter part gave me an
> error, (wrong-number-of-arguments if 1).

A paren is wrong.  It has to be

  \,(if (string-equal \&) "&lt;" "[" "]")

Bye,
Tassilo




  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-07 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-07 16:51 Query replace regex with 2 alternatives Dan Espen
2012-12-07 18:59 ` Barry Margolin
2012-12-07 20:06   ` Dan Espen
2012-12-07 20:19     ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.14801.1354911562.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-12-07 21:32       ` Dan Espen
2012-12-08  5:31     ` Barry Margolin
2012-12-07 20:11 ` Jambunathan K
     [not found] ` <mailman.14799.1354910918.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-12-08 22:07   ` WJ
2012-12-08 23:03     ` William Gardella

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