Re: replace history

[Mathias Dahl]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

    I am somewhat unhappy at the idea of giving a special meaning to
    C-M-p in the minibuffer.  It is true that its usual meaning
    (backward-list) will not be used often in the minibuffer.  But it
    will be used sometimes.

I would think that for example in `eval-expression' this would be
true, but do you really think it is needed for `query-replace'?

I think Dan's suggested way of operation would be really neat, but I
don't care much what key that activates this feature. Someone
mentioned using a prefix argument and that it was already taken. How
about differentiate between prefix arguments (negative versus positive
etc), as some commands do?