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bug#43569: 28.0.50; Menu "Continue Tags Search" signals an error


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#43569: 28.0.50; Menu "Continue Tags Search" signals an error
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:00:14 +0300

> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:10:50 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: juri@linkov.net, 43569@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > > I call the menu item for [tags-repl-continue]
> > > "Continue Search/Replace", with :help "Continue last
> > > tags search or replace operation".
> > >
> > > It's incorrect to say that it continues the last tags
> > > replace operation.  It continues the last tags search
> > > or replace operation.  If the last tags operation was
> > > `tags-search' and not `tags-query-replace', then it
> > > continues the last search, not the last replace.
> > 
> > That is factually correct, but I think the current menus
> > confusing to newbies than your proposal are less.
> 
> I won't argue about it, but I think that as soon as a
> user tries tags-searching and then tries to go back to
> continue a tags query-replace, s?he will be mightily
> surprised.

Like I said: factually correct, but there's no reason for the user to
do something like that, except by accident.





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