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>
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Udyant Wig
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next prev 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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