Emacs: Escape Quotes Command 💠
This page shows a emacs command to escape/unescape quotes.
For example,
"xyz"
becomes
\"xyz\"
This is very useful when coding lisp to process other languages.
For example, when you have this x = "…"
, and you want (search-forward "x = \"…\"")
put this in your Emacs Init File:
(defun xah-escape-quotes (Begin End) "Add slash before double quote in current line or selection. Double quote is codepoint 34. See also: `xah-unescape-quotes' URL `http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/elisp_escape_quotes.html' Version: 2017-01-11" (interactive (if (region-active-p) (list (region-beginning) (region-end)) (list (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position)))) (save-excursion (save-restriction (narrow-to-region Begin End) (goto-char (point-min)) (while (search-forward "\"" nil t) (replace-match "\\\"" t t)))))
(defun xah-unescape-quotes (Begin End) "Replace 「\\\"」 by 「\"」 in current line or selection. See also: `xah-escape-quotes' URL `http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/elisp_escape_quotes.html' Version: 2017-01-11" (interactive (if (region-active-p) (list (region-beginning) (region-end)) (list (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position)))) (save-excursion (save-restriction (narrow-to-region Begin End) (goto-char (point-min)) (while (search-forward "\\\"" nil t) (replace-match "\"" t t)))))
You can assign keys to them. 〔see Emacs Keys: Define Key〕