From: "Berry, Charles" <ccberry@health.ucsd.edu>
To: Vikas Rawal <vikasrawal@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Search and replace excluding code blocks?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:58:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <89C7F745-73D0-44F5-B5A2-0EE6090BDB70@health.ucsd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALtzAB1jWiTzr+21Bed5R7MhbQU+3r-HTNu+f3XL7VinkO=kYA@mail.gmail.com>
> On Jan 29, 2024, at 3:47 PM, Vikas Rawal <vikasrawal@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to search and replace a regex/string in an org file excluding the code blocks from its scope?
>
> Say, I want to replace all opening quotes (") by backticks(``) in the text but not in the code blocks. Is there a way one could achieve that?
>
Sure, the recommended way to search and replace programmatically is given in
(info "(elisp) Search and Replace")
Hacking that slightly to test if point is in a src block and using the double quote preceded by white space as the search string and replacing by that white space and double backticks gives:
#+begin_src elisp
(goto-char 0)
(while (re-search-forward "\\([[:space:]]\\)\"" nil t)
(unless (eq (org-element-type (org-element-at-point)) `src-block)
(replace-match "\\1``")))
#+end_src
You can roll this into a function and add arguments as desired to allow different search/replacement strings.
Best,
Chuck
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