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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Shortening words in region
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:42:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YvfifrZJ7u7n515M@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Vhmgd7QBVmfse5ui--dfC3xzpsyzgMrjCnRF6vp_4IKvXDX4C0HQ07iCGly9i8Ys1NVXdwi9e1El29HOimUBxSXJISG-W4FMYx0LnRYJPig=@proton.me>

* uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2022-08-13 19:34]:
> Have been working on shortening words. But doing so on a word by
> word basis is quite slow. Thusly I am writing a version that accepts
> a selected region.
> 
> This function uses a selected region, then changes initial parts oy
> words (replacing matching cog, col, com, con, cor, coun, and cum
> with the letter "k".

(rx (zero-or-more (or "col" "cog" "com" "con" "cor" "coun" "cum"))) ⇒ "\\(?:c\\(?:o\\(?:un\\|[glmnr]\\)\\|um\\)\\)*"

{C-h f rx RET}

-- 
Jean

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-13 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-13 16:31 Shortening words in region uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-08-13 17:42 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2022-08-13 18:19   ` uzibalqa
2022-08-13 18:22     ` uzibalqa
2022-08-13 18:32       ` Jean Louis
2022-08-13 19:01         ` uzibalqa

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