From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replace-regexp question Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:01:31 +0200 Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <85d5lsji7g.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86oe5cm90i.fsf@flame.pc> <851x28hx8b.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130405694 18243 80.91.229.2 (27 Oct 2005 09:34:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:34:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 27 11:34:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EV49V-0008O9-Hn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:34:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EV49U-0004Py-Sf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:34:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fiinbeck.math.ntnu.no Original-X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1130403352 21307 129.241.15.140 (27 Oct 2005 08:55:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:55:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OW9MGskPSiTGB/0dUyNgtcn++60= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135020 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:30608 Archived-At: + David Kastrup : | The example in the Emacs manual is more amusing in my opinion, but | then I am biased. | | For computing replacement strings for `\,', the `format' function is | often useful (*note Formatting Strings: (elisp)Formatting Strings.). | For example, to add consecutively numbered strings like `ABC00042' to | columns 73 to 80 (unless they are already occupied), you can use Cute, but only understandable by old geezers who remember punch cards. Ahh, the days of Real programmers. -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen - Debating gives most of us much more psychological satisfaction than thinking does: but it deprives us of whatever chance there is of getting closer to the truth. -- C.P. Snow