Thanks, Ruijie. I think it is not what I was asking for, but it's nice to read your code.

Best regards.

El 09/05/2023 a las 13:48, Ruijie Yu escribió:
Ypo<ypun...@gmail.com>  writes:

Hi

Is it possible to, each time I write "...." to be subsituted by "[...]" ?

I can't do it using abbrev, and I don't know how to do it using org-entities.

I use it to yank quotes, for example, I write:

  "Like other editors, Emacs has commands to search for occurrences of a 
string. ....There are also commands that do the same thing, but
  search for patterns instead of fixed strings."

And I would like to get, automatically:

  "Like other editors, Emacs has commands to search for occurrences of a 
string. [...] There are also commands that do the same thing, but
  search for patterns instead of fixed strings."

Best regards
Not necessarily Org-specific, but here's my idea, untested:

```emacs-lisp
(defun my/yank-subst-ellipses ()
   (interactive)
   (let* ((start (point-marker))
          (_ (insert (current-kill 0)))
          (end (point-marker)))
     (save-match-data
       ;; Play around with this regexp
       (while (re-search-forward (rx "...") end t)
         ;; And this replacement text
         (replace-match "[...]")))))
```

Then, since Org sets C-y as `org-yank', make an advice with it.  I am
not confident in this portion at all, but here goes nothing ;)

```emacs-lisp
(require 'cl-lib)
(advice-add
  #'org-yank :around
  (lambda (org-yank &optional arg)
    (cl-letf (((symbol-function 'yank)
               (symbol-function 'my/yank-subst/ellipses)))
      (funcall org-yank arg))))
```

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