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Re: query-replace-interactive
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: query-replace-interactive |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:00:10 -0400 |
1. When users see "(default a -> b)" text in the prompt and want
to change the last replacement slightly, the first reaction is to type
M-n to insert it into the minibuffer for editing, since this is the
standard Emacs behavior. Instead of that, they will get an error
"End of history; no default available".
I misunderstood the idea of "(default a->b)". Now that I see what
it really does, I agree with you that it has lots of problems.
Here's what I THOUGHT the idea was.
The idea is that M-x query-replace would read just one minibuffer argument.
That argument would have the form FROM->TO. After the arg is read,
the interactive spec would split it apart at the -> to get the FROM
and TO strings, and they would become the arguments in the call
to query-replace.
Further, the default for this one argument would be the previous
argument to query-replace. The default would be used if you type RET
and available to edit with M-n.
This is radical, perhaps too radical, but it is clean and coherent.
- query-replace-interactive, Stefan, 2004/07/03
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Juri Linkov, 2004/07/04
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Stefan, 2004/07/04
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Juri Linkov, 2004/07/05
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Stefan, 2004/07/05
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Juri Linkov, 2004/07/06
- Re: query-replace-interactive,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Juri Linkov, 2004/07/07
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Miles Bader, 2004/07/07
- Re: query-replace-interactive, David Kastrup, 2004/07/07
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Richard Stallman, 2004/07/07
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Richard Stallman, 2004/07/06
- Re: query-replace-interactive, David Kastrup, 2004/07/06
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Richard Stallman, 2004/07/06
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Stefan, 2004/07/06
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Richard Stallman, 2004/07/07
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Richard Stallman, 2004/07/06