Re: s/pattern/pattern/g on the commandline ?

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

This is a bit old, but...

On 2012-02-27 10:38:44 +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:24:50 +0100
> <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Is there any way to submit commands like
> > 's/<searched>/<replacement>/g' for being applied the whole commandline
> > in one go?
> 
> Just as a postscript, it's worth noting the ZLE widgets replace-string
> (which can also be loaded under the names replace-pattern or
> replace-regexp) and replace-string-again.  This allows you to do this
> interactively from the command line.  See the zshcontrib manual page.
> 
> I use
> 
> 
> # actually autoloaded
> zlewidget() {
>   # bindkey KEY to new WIDGET, possibly implemented by optional FUNCTION.
>   # FUNCTION defaults to WIDGET and will be marked for autoload -Uz.
> 
>   local key=$1
>   local widget=$2
>   local function=${3:-$2}
> 
>   autoload -Uz $function
>   zle -N $widget $function
>   bindkey $key $widget
> }
> zlewidget "\e%" replace-regexp replace-string

But after such a replacement, if one wants to revert, "undo" doesn't
work.

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