From: Jim Ottaway <j.ottaway@lse.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Transforming Captures in replace-regexp
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:23:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vei1m0qn.fsf@lse.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070217121207.GA7967@wikitex.org
On 17 Feb 2007, Peter Danenberg wrote:
>> I'd like to transform captured groups from `replace-regexp', say,
>> by iterating over the search results with an arbitrary function.
>
>
> The answer is of course to use `\,', following by an
> arbitrary Lisp expression; read the source, Luke!
That works as long as you have Emacs 22 [I don't think it is in 21].
And you don't need to read the source
C-h C-f RET query-replace-regexp
gives all the details of the usage of \,.
I've found it an extremely useful addition to query-replace-regexp.
Regards,
--
Jim Ottaway
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-17 10:33 Transforming Captures in replace-regexp Peter Danenberg
[not found] ` <mailman.4651.1171710704.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-17 12:05 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <mailman.4655.1171716444.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-17 13:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-17 13:47 ` Peter Danenberg
2007-02-17 12:12 ` Peter Danenberg
2007-02-17 12:23 ` Jim Ottaway [this message]
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