From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: replace-regexp
Date: Sat, 08 May 2021 17:10:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwveeeh0w6p.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87czu1xdw6.fsf@zoho.eu
>> There are indeed 2 "standard" solutions:
>> 1- start your loop at the end, moving towards the beginning.
>
> You mean like this?
>
> (defun md-latex-back (beg end)
> (interactive "r")
> (save-excursion
> (goto-char end)
> (while (re-search-backward "_\\(.*\\)_" beg t)
> (replace-match "\\\\textit{\\1}") )))
Yup.
> Also works. Maybe better than the `copy-marker' stuff?
My comment wasn't just for regexp-replacement but more generally for
operating on a region. So better or not will depend on the
specific case. In many cases either way is about as good.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-08 21:10 UTC|newest]
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2021-05-06 23:06 replace-regexp Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-07 6:54 ` replace-regexp Tassilo Horn
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2021-05-08 5:38 ` replace-regexp Yuri Khan
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2021-05-08 18:41 ` replace-regexp Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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2021-05-08 21:59 ` replace-regexp Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-08 22:03 ` replace-regexp Tassilo Horn
2021-05-08 22:25 ` replace-regexp Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-08 22:54 ` [External] : replace-regexp Drew Adams
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2021-05-09 7:38 ` replace-regexp Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-08 22:59 ` avoid narrow-to-region (was: Re: replace-regexp) Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-09 5:48 ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-09 6:09 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-09 6:34 ` Yuri Khan
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2021-05-09 7:22 ` Jean Louis
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2021-05-21 17:35 ` same sound random sort everywhere (was: Re: avoid narrow-to-region (was: Re: replace-regexp)) Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-21 20:12 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-21 20:47 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-07 8:02 ` replace-regexp Jean Louis
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