Re: Shortening words in region

[uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>]

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On Saturday, August 13th, 2022 at 6:19 PM, uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me> wrote:


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> On Saturday, August 13th, 2022 at 5:42 PM, Jean Louis bugs@gnu.support wrote:
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> > * uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org [2022-08-13 19:34]:
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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".
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> > (rx (zero-or-more (or "col" "cog" "com" "con" "cor" "coun" "cum"))) ⇒ "\\(?:c\\(?:o\\(?:un\\|[glmnr]\\)\\|um\\)\\)*"
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> > {C-h f rx RET}
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> > --
> > Jean

Would you know how to apply rx to the following?

"\\(ly\\|ily\\|ley\\)\\>"