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Re: Advanced query-replace-regexp in code


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Advanced query-replace-regexp in code
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:19:32 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> writes:

> I can't get the following example to work programmatically.
>
>   M-x replace-regexp
>   Replace regexp:  \(\w+\)
>   Replace regexp with:  \,(capitalize \1)
>
> Is this only possible in interactive query-replace?
> If so should I use a combination of while(), looking-at(), re-search-
> forward(), replace-match(), match-string() etc.

Do it interactively, then use

C-x ESC ESC

in order to figure out how to this non-interactively.

-- 
David Kastrup


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