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Re: query-replace-interactive
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: query-replace-interactive |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:42:27 +0900 |
Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
> I extended this idea to what you described above, i.e. splitting the
> from-string argument in the form "FROM -> TO". This would be more
> consistent with standard Emacs handling of default values, but it has
> one drawback: the separator should not appear in the text to replace.
> But if the string " -> " is rare enough to appear in replacement strings
I think that it could be extremely confusing for the user when problems
_did_ crop up (which they will).
Another problem is that what may be convenient for small strings, might
actually be pretty annoying for large ones -- I often use replace on
very large strings, e.g., multi-line C expressions [and why not, it
works fine], and finding and editing around (without accidentally
deleting necessary whitespace, etc.) a little 2-4 character string in
the midst of all that could be quite bad.
Perhaps a more robust method would be to use some sort of "separator"
string like you suggest, but make it not a simple string, e.g., how
about:
(defvar query-replace-separator
(propertize "\nwith: "
'read-only t
'field 'prompt
'face 'minibuffer-prompt
'rear-nonsticky t))
(read-string "Query replace: " query-replace-separator)
[That won't quite work, but...]
That'd make the initial query-replace prompt look something like:
Query replace:
with:
and allow the user to freely edit both fields at once, with M-p and M-n
operating on both!
Yes, slightly :-), but it would be a very nice interface.
-Miles
--
Fast, small, soon; pick any 2.
- 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, 2004/07/06
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Juri Linkov, 2004/07/07
- Re: query-replace-interactive,
Miles Bader <=
- 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
- Re: query-replace-interactive, David Kastrup, 2004/07/06
- Re: query-replace-interactive, Richard Stallman, 2004/07/07