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Re: replace matches in any string
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: replace matches in any string |
Date: |
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:55:22 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:43:28 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote:
TZ> I'll try to explain more clearly since there haven't been responses.
TZ> Daniel said:
TZ> "The idea is to use the match-data informations to expand positional
TZ> parameters in any string, where replace-match only works on the one the
TZ> match occurs."
TZ> So for example, we can say:
TZ> (when (string-match
TZ> "\\(daniel\\)"
TZ> "address@hidden")
TZ> (replace-match "Daniel is \\1" nil nil "address@hidden" 1))
TZ> -> "Daniel is address@hidden"
TZ> But replace-match needs to be passed the same string that matched
TZ> ("address@hidden" in the example). How can we replace \\1
TZ> and the other positional parameters in arbitrary text? Gnus has
TZ> nnmail-expand-newtext[1] to do this and it would be great to avoid special
TZ> code to do it, or if such code can't be avoided, at least move it
TZ> outside Gnus because IMO it's generally applicable and useful.
I haven't heard any comments on this. It's blocking a Gnus feature so
I'd really like to get it done; the code is ready[1] so I simply need to
know if this functionality should be in Emacs or only in Gnus.
Ted
[1] --or we'll make Lars hack it until it's ready, you've been warned--
- Re: replace matches in any string,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: replace matches in any string, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/02
- Re: replace matches in any string, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/09/02
- Re: replace matches in any string, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/02
- Re: replace matches in any string, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/02
- Re: replace matches in any string, David Kastrup, 2010/09/02
- Re: replace matches in any string, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/09/02
- Re: replace matches in any string, David Kastrup, 2010/09/02
- Re: replace matches in any string, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/09/02
- Re: replace matches in any string, David Kastrup, 2010/09/02
- Re: replace matches in any string, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/09/02