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Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp
From: |
Ilya Zakharevich |
Subject: |
Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp |
Date: |
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 08:57:40 +0000 (UTC) |
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[A complimentary Cc of this posting was NOT [per weedlist] sent to
David Kastrup
<dak@gnu.org>], who wrote in article <85iriwy3m0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>:
> > [A complimentary Cc of this posting was NOT [per weedlist] sent to
> > David Kastrup
> > <dak@gnu.org>],
>
> I already told you to leave off "complimentary copies" to group
> articles: they are a breach of netiquette since they add no valuable
> information at all and tend to confuse the recipient into having to
> reply multiple times: once in mail, and later, when the mistake has
> been noticed, on the group again.
Fill free to read this header again. Thanks.
BTW, you know that sending BLIND Cc is considered a breach of
netiquette, right, and you know the reasons? And still you do it...
Sigh...
> Please stop this nuisance. You can expect that people writing on
> Usenet groups are also reading there.
Your statement would have some significance if Usenet were a reliable
media. It was not 20 years ago. It still is not.
> >> >> C-M-% \(foo\)\|\(rock\)\|metal RET
> >> >> \,(cond (\1 "bar") (\2 "house") ("goa")) RET
> >> >
> >> > To make it useful, one needs a function to count the number of
> >> > parentheses in a given regular expression. Is there?
> >
> >> Uh WHAT? You just type the above stuff. Why would that not be
> >> useful?
> >
> > How many people do you know who would type something like this? :-(
> Well, enough for the idiom to be useful. That's why it was invented
> and documented.
Enough to invent and document it. AFAIK, not enough for it to be useful.
> > And to have a "generally usable" wrapper, one needs a way to
> > identify how many paren groups are inside your "foo" and "rock"
> > regular expressions.
>
> I can't actually think of a user interface for such a wrapper that
> would not really complicate things. In particular if you want to
> refer to matched groups in the replacements, it is pretty hard to come
> up with anything close to a useful interface.
All this means is that you had a bad day. Just revisit it in a day or
so, if you do not know the answer already. [Hint at the end of the
message. ;-]
Yours,
Ilya
Hint: one presses ENTER to end the replacement string. What about
pressing something els, like C-u ENTER? ;-)
- multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, Florian Kaufmann, 2006/10/06
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, Malte Spiess, 2006/10/06
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, Florian Kaufmann, 2006/10/06
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, David Kastrup, 2006/10/06
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, Ilya Zakharevich, 2006/10/06
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, David Kastrup, 2006/10/06
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, Ilya Zakharevich, 2006/10/07
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- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, David Kastrup, 2006/10/07
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- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, David Kastrup, 2006/10/07
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, Ilya Zakharevich, 2006/10/07
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, Mathias Dahl, 2006/10/08
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, Kim F. Storm, 2006/10/08
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- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, Mathias Dahl, 2006/10/12
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/09
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, Ilya Zakharevich, 2006/10/09
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, David Kastrup, 2006/10/09
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, Ilya Zakharevich, 2006/10/09
- Re: multiple search strings in query-replace-regexp, Malte Spiess, 2006/10/07