Re: replace history

[Mathias Dahl]

> > 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?
>
> Such as `C-u -2 M-%' to get the penultimate replacement pair?
> This would be not very convenient when you don't remember your
> replacement history, so you need to try different prefix arguments
> before finding the necessary one.

No no, not to select a certain history item. To control the behavior of M-p
and M-n in the command.