Re: what can I do with regexp match?

[David Kastrup]

Seweryn Kokot <skokot@po.opole.pl> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to have a function that visits all the tex files included
> in main.tex file. I wrote the following function:
> (defun my-document-files ()
>   "Open all document files"
>   (interactive)
>   (while (re-search-forward "\\\\include{\\(.*\\)}")
>        (find-file (concat "~/nauka/doktorat/thesis/" "\\1" ".tex"))))
>
> But it doesn't work since \\1 is not replaced by regexp match. The
> result is that the function visits \1.tex file. The question is how to
> process the regexp match to make it argument for find-file or more
> general question how to save the match in a variable or list?

You know
M-x reftex-query-replace-document RET ?

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