Re: Structural regular expressions

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Tom <address@hidden> wrote:
> This structural regex thing is interesting. You can perform operations
> (e.g. replace text) on all strings in the file, or everywhere except
> in strings and comments, etc. Here's the description of the feature
> on the E editor blog if someone wants to implement something like
> this for emacs:
>
> http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2010/beyond-vi


Looks indeed like a useful idea. I suggest adding a new function
argument PREDICATE to query-replace-regexp etc. (Think of the argument
PREDICATE in completing-read.)