Emacs Lisp Find Replace String-Pairs Commands
This page shows examples of multi-pair find replace in emacs lisp.
You need the elisp library xah-replace-pairs.el at Emacs: Xah Replace Pairs, xah-replace-pairs.el.
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Escape/UnEscape Backslash
These are very useful when you do text processing in emacs lisp. For example, if you need to process HTML, just copy raw HTML text, paste in emacs, then press a button to escape quote characters, and now you are ready to put them inside elisp string.
TeX Math Symbols to Unicode
Emacs: Replace Greek Letter Names to Unicode
Curly Quote Fixes
The following is useful when you want to normalize the style of punctuation in essay or novel.
Emacs: Convert Straight/Curly Quotes
Emacs Lisp: Convert Unicode Chars to ASCII
Change {Round, Square, Curly} Brackets
Emacs: Change Brackets/Quotes 🚀
Convert Punctuation Between English/Chinese Forms
Emacs: Convert Chinese/Japanese Punctuations Full-Width/Half-Width
Convert Latin Alphabet to Unicode Gothic-style Characters
Emacs: Latin to Gothic (𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔠)
Make HTML Table
Another different use, but essentially same technique of find replace, is to convert a plain text table into a HTML table. See: Emacs: HTML, Lines to Table.
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