Re: Determining existence of text following point

[michael-franzese@gmx.com]

Would like to set a function which I could then use with an if statement

Have constructed something as follows.  But naturally the name of the function is
the reverse of having no text (including empty spaces)

(defun looking-at-text ()
  "todo"

    (looking-at-p "\\([[:blank:]]+\\)?\\(\n\\|\\'\\)")

    )

Then my condition for inserting my string would be

(unless (looking-at-text)
   (delete-region (point) (line-end-position))
   (save-excursion (insert s)) )



> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 12:09 PM
> From: "Eric Abrahamsen" <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> To: michael-franzese@gmx.com
> Cc: "Skip Montanaro" <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>, "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Determining existence of text following point
>
> michael-franzese@gmx.com writes:
>
> > But if there are only empty spaces it is ok too.
>
> Ah, then Skip's looking-at is a fine solution:
>
> (looking-at-p "\\([[:blank:]]+\\)?\\(\n\\|\\'\\)")
>
> That's as a test. Or you could use a single `replace-regexp' invocation,
> to detect and replace the whitespace in one go.
>