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 = \"…\"")
Here's the code.
(defun xah-escape-quotes (@begin @end) "Replace 「\"」 by 「\\\"」 in current line or text selection. See also: `xah-unescape-quotes' URL `http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/elisp_escape_quotes.html' Version 2017-01-11" (interactive (if (use-region-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 "\\\"" "FIXEDCASE" "LITERAL")))))
(defun xah-unescape-quotes (@begin @end) "Replace 「\\\"」 by 「\"」 in current line or text selection. See also: `xah-escape-quotes' URL `http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/elisp_escape_quotes.html' Version 2017-01-11" (interactive (if (use-region-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 "\"" "FIXEDCASE" "LITERAL")))))
You can assign keys to them. [see Emacs: How to Define Keybinding]