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From: Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regex replace for numbers
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 17:13:59 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjdd9y4g.fsf@panda.goosenet.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10347.1412313926.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:
| Instead of solving it with a regexp, I suggest some lisp :
| 
| (save-excursion
|   (goto-char (point-min))
|   (while (re-search-forward "[0-9]" nil t )
|     (let ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'sexp))
|           (number (number-at-point)))
|       (when number
|         (delete-region (car bounds) (cdr bounds))
|         (insert (format "%s" number))))))
| 
| (This might not work in modes other than emacs-lisp mode, due to how
| number-at-point works.)

 Is there a way to save the major-mode of the buffer before entering the
 above code, change to emacs-lisp-mode and then to enable the original
 major-mode again?

| <snip tests>

-- 
Udyant Wig
GitHub:    https://github.com/udyant
Poetry:    http://www.writing.com/main/profile/biography/frosthrone


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-03 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-03  0:33 Regex replace for numbers Robert Thorpe
2014-10-03  1:07 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-10-03  1:41   ` Robert Thorpe
2014-10-03  2:45     ` Yuri Khan
2014-10-03  5:25 ` Nicolas Richard
     [not found] ` <mailman.10347.1412313926.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-03 11:43   ` Udyant Wig [this message]
2014-10-03 14:40     ` Nicolas Richard
2014-10-03 19:22       ` Robert Thorpe

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