Re: replace-regexp

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

> There are indeed 2 "standard" solutions:
> 1- start your loop at the end, moving towards the beginning.

You mean like this? Also works. Maybe better than the
`copy-marker' stuff?

(defun md-latex-back (beg end)
  (interactive "r")
  (save-excursion
    (goto-char end)
    (while (re-search-backward "_\\(.*\\)_" beg t)
      (replace-match "\\\\textit{\\1}") )))

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