Dynamic global replacement by line numbers, emacs

Question

I am trying to do some debugging on some Prolog code, and I have several method calls.

Is it possible to make a global replacement in emacs so that I can create a write statement that would supplant the current line in the program?

In essence, if I accept a call to method X and write a write statement (some line), can I replace all instances

X

with

X write (LINE-NUMBER)

where was LINE-NUMBER received through some emacs call?

Please let me know if I am not clear and thank you in advance.

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user1394062 May 14, '12 at 15:12

2 answers

dave jones · Answer 1 · 2012-05-14T15:56:07+0000

This page has a similar example.

From it I tried the following command

M-x replace-regexp
Replace regexp: \(word_to_replace\)
Replace regexp with: \1, write(\,(line-number-at-pos)

replace-regexp , , . M-x query-replace-regexp , .

wfbarksdale · Answer 2 · 2012-05-14T17:50:22+0000

, script, .