From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: uzibalqa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Apply replacement on word occurring at point using a lisp function Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:17:54 +0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: uzibalqa Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34234"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 13 16:18:43 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oMryN-0008kf-1W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2022 16:18:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45992 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oMryM-0001NS-1w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2022 10:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40938) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oMrxn-0001N5-J2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2022 10:18:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-4318.protonmail.ch ([185.70.43.18]:58013) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oMrxj-0003cx-7l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2022 10:18:07 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=proton.me; s=protonmail; t=1660400280; x=1660659480; bh=wl7dZztD4d4w96AIop8oWe1FBhQqR1dcB1dr/sTd+c0=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To: References:Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To: Feedback-ID:Message-ID; b=BU4/Zp9llME+RZAaywPOtPX09aP6+B2Ynpab8wAfg/ZH9WE4Pll8LjnTN+PmuM5OO XmwDiBT2cddmnH+y3T7voTqbi5uxJGkYU4vFnJbcIs2WG8m7x3cfAyOz3D/QkS3QL7 +RZj84in8xTg5yQGo7l8T8qm/+Wo3Jjbg6bB5kc52x27a6Zpq6lO2WGnTKs6luEuCr ODfitZ+jQvfq7KUbbAc0v8xNs80e/57bl1x1bsLM+dEWCVIe6BYBNd2hQ/jWQqlBsX sgzZ7oVYOHdT/vA6SOn0L8fz1q+4fHHDymrWcAjLZkYljnOtixFBvynS/lvUkWJNe2 uK0kYhj4mLYow== In-Reply-To: Feedback-ID: 52887082:user:proton Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.43.18; envelope-from=uzibalqa@proton.me; helo=mail-4318.protonmail.ch X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138843 Archived-At: ------- Original Message ------- On Saturday, August 13th, 2022 at 10:24 AM, Jean Louis w= rote: > * uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me [2022-08-13 00:00]: > > > Jean, I have written the words as examples. But really wanted a > > general scheme for replacements based on specified rules > > (e.g. initial matches of cog changed to k), rather than using actual > > words. > > > You have not presented definition of your general rule and I do not > have the library M-x telepathy-mode to know what you mean. > > -- > Jean Your original defun "change-word-at-point" does the job. Using a regex as = you did was good but did not want to go along your second path of matching exac= t words, as matching words would entail going through the contents of the dic= tionary and finding the words that match a rule (words starting with "cor").