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Article #2014Anyone have a replace-regexp-region ?
From: Simon Marshall
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 15:49
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 15:49
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Peter A Fletcher (peterf@csis.dit.csiro.au) writes:
| Hello there! I was wondering if anyone had an elisp function to replace
| regexps in only the currently selected region ? It would be a really handy
| thing to have around.
Just rap around the replace-regexp function! Like so:
(defun replace-regexp-region (regexp to-string start finish &optional delimmed)
"Replace things matching REGEXP with TO-STRING in region.
Preserve case in each match if case-replace and case-fold-search
are non-nil and REGEXP has no uppercase letters.
If called non interactively, region is specified by third and fourth args START
and FINISH.
Fifth arg DELIMITED (prefix arg if interactive) non-nil means replace
only matches surrounded by word boundaries.
In TO-STRING, \& means insert what matched REGEXP,
and \<n> means insert what matched <n>th \(...\) in REGEXP.
Simon. "
(interactive "sReplace regexp: \nsReplace regexp %s with: \nrP")
(save-excursion
(save-restriction
(narrow-to-region start finish)
(goto-char (point-min))
(perform-replace regexp to-string nil t delimmed)
(message "Done"))))
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unreplyable!garbage From: sm2@sequent.cc.hull.ac.uk (Simon Marshall) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Subject: Anyone have a replace-regexp-region ? Message-ID: <2278.9106171549@seq.hull.ac.uk> Date: 17 Jun 91 15:49:51 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 32