From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Seweryn Kokot Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problem with elisp Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:23:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87vdw1tqcm.fsf@poczta.po.opole.pl> References: <87od1u7w3z.fsf@poczta.po.opole.pl> <8763o2onu6.fsf@poczta.po.opole.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223586821 9695 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2008 21:13:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:13:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 23:14:39 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ko2qE-00020V-Fs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:14:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59182 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko2pA-0004yN-9h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:13:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko2os-0004xv-SE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:13:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko2oq-0004xJ-Gg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:13:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52901 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko2oq-0004xG-At for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:13:12 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:51694 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ko2op-0005rC-Sq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:13:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ko2oo-0003uJ-9R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:13:10 +0000 Original-Received: from nat-warynskiego.po.opole.pl ([217.173.199.132]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:13:10 +0000 Original-Received: from sewkokot by nat-warynskiego.po.opole.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:13:10 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nat-warynskiego.po.opole.pl X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9IiXYCb/7cAd1H1bgCOEbV+ksyg= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58636 Archived-At: Nikolaj Schumacher writes: > Or you can give up the temp string and search for both at once like this: > > (re-search-forward (concat "\\(" (regexp-quote string-a) "\\)\\|\\(" > (regexp-quote string-a) "\\)")) > > and then replace based on which one was found: > > (if (match-beginning 1) > (replace-match string-b) > (replace-match string-a)) I prefer this idea. Thanks Nikolaj, Joost and Barry for help -- regards, Seweryn