(dired-normalize-subdir
(dired-replace-in-string regexp newtext (car elt)))))))
\f
-(defun dired-expand-newtext (string newtext)
- ;; Expand \& and \1..\9 (referring to STRING) in NEWTEXT, using match data.
- ;; Note that in Emacs 18 match data are clipped to current buffer
- ;; size...so the buffer should better not be smaller than STRING.
- (let ((pos 0)
- (len (length newtext))
- (expanded-newtext ""))
- (while (< pos len)
- (setq expanded-newtext
- (concat expanded-newtext
- (let ((c (aref newtext pos)))
- (if (= ?\\ c)
- (cond ((= ?\& (setq c
- (aref newtext
- (setq pos (1+ pos)))))
- (substring string
- (match-beginning 0)
- (match-end 0)))
- ((and (>= c ?1) (<= c ?9))
- ;; return empty string if N'th
- ;; sub-regexp did not match:
- (let ((n (- c ?0)))
- (if (match-beginning n)
- (substring string
- (match-beginning n)
- (match-end n))
- "")))
- (t
- (char-to-string c)))
- (char-to-string c)))))
- (setq pos (1+ pos)))
- expanded-newtext))
-\f
;; The basic function for half a dozen variations on cp/mv/ln/ln -s.
(defun dired-create-files (file-creator operation fn-list name-constructor
&optional marker-char)