* Search and replace excluding code blocks?
@ 2024-01-29 23:47 Vikas Rawal
2024-01-31 1:58 ` Berry, Charles
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From: Vikas Rawal @ 2024-01-29 23:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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?
Thanks,
Vikas
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* Re: Search and replace excluding code blocks?
2024-01-29 23:47 Search and replace excluding code blocks? Vikas Rawal
@ 2024-01-31 1:58 ` Berry, Charles
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From: Berry, Charles @ 2024-01-31 1:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Vikas Rawal; +Cc: org-mode mailing list
> 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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