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bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Apr 2017 01:03:04 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> Sorry if this was said already, but why a macro and not a map-like
>> function?
> No special reason. It's the second idea which came to my mind after
> my initial proposal was declined. Maybe because is shorter to do:
> (with-collect-matches regexp)
> than
> (foo-collect-matches regexp nil #'identity)
>
> if you are just interested in the list of matches. Implementing it as
> a map function might be also nice. Don't see a big enthusiasm on
> the proposal, though :-(
>
> So far people think that it's easy to write a while loop. I wonder if they
> think the same about the existence of `dolist': the should
> never use it and always write a `while' loop instead. Don't think they
> do that anyway.
>
> I will repeat it once more. I find nice, having an operator returning
> a list with matches for REGEXP. If such operator, in addition, accepts
> a body of code or a function, then i find this operator very nice
> and elegant.
A mapcar-like function presumes a lambda where you can process every
match as you need, but going this way you'd have a temptation to
implement an analogous API from other programming languages like e.g.
https://apidock.com/ruby/String/scan
- bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer, (continued)
- bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer, Philipp Stephani, 2017/04/08
- bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer, Tino Calancha, 2017/04/08
- bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer, Philipp Stephani, 2017/04/08
- bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer, Tino Calancha, 2017/04/08
- bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer, Philipp Stephani, 2017/04/22
- bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer, npostavs, 2017/04/08
- bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer, Philipp Stephani, 2017/04/22
- bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer,
Juri Linkov <=
- bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer, Tino Calancha, 2017/04/07
- bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer, Noam Postavsky, 2017/04/07
- bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer, Drew Adams, 2017/04/07
- bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer, Tino Calancha, 2017/04/08