Re: Improve `replace-regexp-in-string' ergonomics?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>>     (foo-replace results
>>       ("\\[" "(")
>>       ("\\]" ")")
>>       ("[[:lower:]]+" (upcase (match-string 0)))
>>       ("siglo \\([0-9]+\\)"
>>        (integer-to-roman (string-to-number (match-string 1))))
>>       ...)
>
> Perfect.  That looks like a really nice function signature to me.
> Perhaps without the parentheses if there's only one replacement to be
> done.

(And there could be an optional third element in the replacement lists
to do the SUBEXP action.)

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