From: Tom <levelhalom@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Structural regular expressions
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 20:27:43 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20100907T222143-475@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AANLkTimYvE0aqrG-OQxuY6BTca7ngzrfQUa62mOxyV=+@mail.gmail.com
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> Looks indeed like a useful idea. I suggest adding a new function
> argument PREDICATE to query-replace-regexp etc. (Think of the argument
> PREDICATE in completing-read.)
>
It can be a good start, but the feature in the E editor is more general
than search and replace. You can perform any operation on the selected
text. It's sort of like working on the narrowed part of a buffer, only
the narrowed part in this case consists of several separate ranges of
the same buffer (like all comments, etc.).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-07 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-07 19:25 Structural regular expressions Tom
2010-09-07 20:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-07 20:27 ` Tom [this message]
2010-09-07 21:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-08 1:13 ` Eric Schulte
2010-09-08 8:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-08 9:20 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2010-09-08 10:30 ` Kan-Ru Chen
2010-09-09 6:34 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2010-09-08 14:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-08 15:52 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2010-09-08 22:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-09 7:07 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-09 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 12:23 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-10 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-09 20:47 ` Davis Herring
2010-09-09 22:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-10 10:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 15:43 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-10 17:03 ` David House
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=dv8n40x-rTtz@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-10 20:29 ` Tom
2010-09-10 23:50 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-11 2:23 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-11 7:44 ` Tom
2010-09-11 7:58 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-11 8:33 ` tomas
2010-09-11 15:04 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-11 15:49 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-12 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-12 14:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-12 16:43 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-12 17:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-12 21:31 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-09 15:51 ` Tom
2010-09-09 16:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-09 16:23 ` Tom
2010-09-09 16:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-09 16:53 ` Tom
2010-09-09 17:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-09 19:27 ` Daniel Colascione
2010-09-08 0:00 ` Drew Adams
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