Re: Improve `replace-regexp-in-string' ergonomics?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> However, I have a hypothesis that what users really want is “I have
> this list of pattern/replacement pairs, and I want to go through each
> occurrence of each pattern in the original text, and replace them with
> their respective replacements”, without thinking about intermediate
> buffer contents.

That's a good point.  That points towards a new `regexp-replace'
function that takes all the replacement pairs and does the right thing
here instead of chaining independent calls.

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