Re: Transforming Captures in replace-regexp

[Jim Ottaway]

On 17 Feb 2007, Peter Danenberg wrote:

>> I'd like to transform captured groups from `replace-regexp', say,
>> by iterating over the search results with an arbitrary function.
>
>
> The  answer  is  of course to use `\,', following by an
> arbitrary Lisp expression; read the source, Luke!

That works as long as you have Emacs 22 [I don't think it is in 21].

And you don't need to read the source

 C-h C-f RET query-replace-regexp 

gives all the details of the usage of \,.

I've found it an extremely useful addition to query-replace-regexp.

Regards,

-- 
Jim Ottaway