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Hmmm... I think I disagree with this as well... strings are very very well supported... it's a little annoying that we don't have a full string lib in elisp (so
by nic-ferrier 14y ago
Hmmm... I think I disagree with this as well... strings are very very well supported... it's a little annoying that we don't have a full string lib in elisp (some of the things here http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ElispCookbook#toc1 http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ElispCookbook#toc1 are missing, but that's why I say you can copy and paste when you need to).
- swah 14y agoYou rather write something like this (from Emacswiki) operating on strings? (defun kill-whitespace () "Kill the whitespace between two non-whitespace characters" (interactive "*") (save-excursion (save-restriction (save-match-data (progn (re-search-backward "[^ \t\r\n]" nil t) (re-search-forward "[ \t\r\n]+" nil t) (replace-match "" nil nil))))))
- nic-ferrier 14y agoit depends on the context... but maybe replace-regexp-in-string would be the right function to use for strings in this context. Of course, a lot of the time buffers are really powerful tools to replace strings. I just don't think your original assertion of "almost never" is right. Buffers are handy but I use them to replace strings less than 50% of the time.