From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Query replace regex with 2 alternatives Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:31:54 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354944914 9360 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2012 05:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 05:35:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 08 06:35:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ThD4R-0002zf-3W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 06:35:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54988 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ThD4E-0003ZR-H6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:35:14 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="78fb7125a45724f15e21604c94a7d968"; logging-data="23168"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+By8qhnZsQZa0TVUOdDW7Q" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zCJLN7VC2Ggk/RZQYwafDCnAYUU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:195764 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88086 Archived-At: In article , Dan Espen wrote: > Barry Margolin writes: > > <\|> > > Replace with: > > \,(if (string-equal \& "<" "[" "]")) > > This is what I was asking for. > I pasted both values into emacs and the latter part gave me an > error, (wrong-number-of-arguments if 1). The same error I get if > I try to evaluate the expression. Not important now, I got the idea. Sorry, I misplaced a parenthesis, it should be: \,(if (string-equal \& "<") "[" "]") -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***