[ cl-cookbook-Support Requests-612276 ] replace-in-string not found

Support Requests item #612276, was opened at 2002-09-20 15:55
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: replace-in-string not found

Initial Comment:
hello,

in completer.el, the function completer-file calls the 
function replace-in-string.  neither emacs nor i can find 
its definition.  can you help?  i'm running gnu emacs 
version 21.2.1

thanks,

-geo

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>Comment By: Jeff Caldwell (jdcal)
Date: 2003-03-09 10:54

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Add to .emacs

; From 
;  http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05272.html

(if (not (fboundp 'replace-in-string))
    ;;; copied from gnus-util (Oort)
    (defun replace-in-string (string regexp newtext
&optional literal)
      (let ((start 0) tail)
        (while (string-match regexp string start)
          (setq tail (- (length string) (match-end 0)))
          (setq string (replace-match newtext nil literal
string))
          (setq start (1- (- (length string) tail)))))
      string))

The 1- in the final setq start puts start at the last
character of the replacement string. Trying to sub a char
with itself loops. I haven't run into trouble with (setq
start (- (length string) tail)) but ymmv. I haven't done the
grand tour considering everything that might happen with a
sub'd regexp. I think the if-not-boundp is just there in
case the original function pops up from somewhere. If your
.emacs is settled and you're going to depend upon this
version of replace-in-string, you probably can remove the if.

Jeff Caldwell

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