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Re: replace-regexp question


From: Harald Hanche-Olsen
Subject: Re: replace-regexp question
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:01:31 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (berkeley-unix)

+ David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>:

| The example in the Emacs manual is more amusing in my opinion, but
| then I am biased.
|
|        For computing replacement strings for `\,', the `format' function is
|     often useful (*note Formatting Strings: (elisp)Formatting Strings.).
|     For example, to add consecutively numbered strings like `ABC00042' to
|     columns 73 to 80 (unless they are already occupied), you can use

Cute, but only understandable by old geezers who remember punch cards.
Ahh, the days of Real programmers.

-- 
* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- Debating gives most of us much more psychological satisfaction
  than thinking does: but it deprives us of whatever chance there is
  of getting closer to the truth.  -- C.P. Snow


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