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: Advanced query-replace-regexp in code Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 21:19:13 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243475015 5455 80.91.229.12 (28 May 2009 01:43:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 01:43:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 28 03:43:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M9UeY-00017H-N1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 03:43:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48789 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M9UeY-0000jm-4V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:43:30 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!feeder.erje.net!feeder.motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!news.eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1/aMdc6DN1MXOtEpj26RYQ/9xRf2ZEK9aWeD8pvoFh2gjdfnYZnyyNZNOIXrGJ6oUuFSvFhrUCr0v+9QfalXNcobOd28PkUA3MPbFbfxuGhZPgeb5xX7BR4VuEyTg7idOuS6JJ2R5T8VQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 01:19:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19Yj/k9B1VJm7ELzI9PG0hxC+upZAYt/IM= Cancel-Lock: sha1:XSkOkkeLbBJxCbBSbG1KrFbvYwE= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169556 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64788 Archived-At: In article , Nordlöw wrote: > I can't get the following example to work programmatically. > > M-x replace-regexp > Replace regexp: \(\w+\) > Replace regexp with: \,(capitalize \1) > > Is this only possible in interactive query-replace? > If so should I use a combination of while(), looking-at(), re-search- > forward(), replace-match(), match-string() etc. Yes. Notice that the documentation of replace-regexp says: In interactive calls, the replacement text may contain `\,' It's a special extension just for interactive use. I'm not sure why it was restricted this way. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***