From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ilya Zakharevich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 22:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: References: <1160133442.016714.5230@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <85iriwy3m0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85wt7cwkwc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160260848 16368 80.91.229.2 (7 Oct 2006 22:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 22:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Bcc: ilya Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 08 00:40:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GWKqX-0004hz-31 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:40:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GWKqW-00089P-Ko for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Oct 2006 18:40:40 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!agate.berkeley.edu!ilya Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 56 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-X-Trace: agate.berkeley.edu 1160258655 55877 169.229.140.13 (7 Oct 2006 22:04:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 22:04:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: trn [how to get a version via %-escapes???] with a custom header X-How-To-Reach-Me: The From: address is valid X-How-To-Disable-Cc: Put in the headers the line: Mail-Copies-To: never \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw Originator: ilya@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142266 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:37885 Archived-At: [A complimentary Cc of this posting was NOT [per weedlist] sent to David Kastrup ], who wrote in article <85wt7cwkwc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>: [META: the following line is correct.] > > [A complimentary Cc of this posting was NOT [per weedlist] sent to > > David Kastrup > > ], who wrote in article <85iriwy3m0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>: [META: the following line is a lie] > >> > [A complimentary Cc of this posting was NOT [per weedlist] sent to > >> > David Kastrup > >> > ], Sigh; my mangler edited not only the header, but also the body of the message. Initially, I did not notice this, and built my reply to you based on wrong assumption. So sorry, I do not know why your name was not in weed list - assuming you asked me before... > So you are, in effect, complaining that your "courtesy copy" had just > the bad effect I told you it had. Correct. My apologies. > But your message contained no information that would have been > personally important to me. Maybe; but such is hard to predict when posting. > Well, if it is not useful, there is no point in complaining about it. Did I? > > Hint: one presses ENTER to end the replacement string. What about > > pressing something els, like C-u ENTER? ;-) > > How about rereading what I wrote above? "In particular if you want to > refer to matched groups in the replacements, it is pretty hard to come > up with anything close to a useful interface." > So how does C-u RET make it easy to refer to matched groups? How about rereading what I wrote above? "To make it useful, one needs a function to count the number of parentheses in a given regular expression. Is there?" Given this, C-M-% (or whatever is the key in default Emacs bindings) could just accept multiple pairs REGEXP + REPLACEMENT (separated, e.g., by C-u RET). Hope this helps, Ilya