Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New packages: elquery, file-ring, metamorph

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 01:10, Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 06:09:23PM -0400, Adam wrote:
>>>The README file for metamorph suggests that you are reimplementing
>>>query-replace-regexp's \,:
>>>
>>>     [...]
>>>
>>>Or am I missing something?
>>
>> Nope, I didn't know query-replace-regexp could do that. metamorph
>> offers previews while you type and does it all in one shot, but that
>> probably doesn't warrant a whole separate package. Thanks for taking
>> a look at it!
>>
> IMHO the best would be to add previews to query-replace-regexp. I asked
> about that on emacs help some days ago and Juri said that there is
> already come WIP...

The changes Juri referred to are discussed in bug#53126, but they are
concerned only with lazy highlight and lazy count.

I am not (or at least not yet) working on a preview of the replacement
text.  Feel free to give this a try.