Emacs Lisp Find Replace String-Pairs Commands

This page shows examples of multi-pair find replace in emacs lisp.

CSS Compressor

• Emacs: CSS Compressor

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.

• Emacs: Escape Quotes Command 🚀

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: Replace Straight Quotes to Curly 🚀

Emacs Lisp: Convert Unicode Chars to ASCII

• Emacs: Remove Accent Marks 🚀

Change {Round, Square, Curly} Brackets

• Emacs: Change Brackets/Quotes 🚀

Convert Punctuation Between English/Chinese Forms

• Emacs: Convert Chinese/Japanese Full-Width/Half-Width Punctuations 🚀

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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