Re: Replacement

[Kevin Rodgers]

hufflen jean-michel wrote:
>    Dear GNU Emacs developers,
>
>    I think I found a bug in the replacement operation.  Let us consider a
> source text for LateX and assume that we want to replace the command for an
> accented letter by the accented letter itself. For example, replacing \`{a} by
> Ã  using the accurate coding.  If we look into the documentation and would like 
> to perform this operation by means of a Lisp code, that should be:
>
> (beginning-of-buffer)
> (while (re-search-forward "\\\B`{a}" nil t)
>   (replace-match "Ã " nil nil))
>
> Unfortunately, the replacement is \`{a} ====> \Ã 

"\\\B..." is the same as "\\B...".  I think you meant "\\\\B..." or more
likely "\\B\\...".

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Kevin Rodgers