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bug#41692: 26.3; Enhancement request, `query-replace': let user use text
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#41692: 26.3; Enhancement request, `query-replace': let user use text at point as default |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Jun 2020 01:54:47 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> If you want to default the FROM or TO text for `query-replace' to some
> text at point, you currently need to first isearch for it. This request
> is essentially to be able to skip doing that.
>
> As an example (only), in my own code, my version of
> `query-replace-read-from' can get the default any of these ways:
>
> * Text of nonempty active region, if option
> `search/replace-region-as-default-flag' is non-nil.
>
> * Text of secondary selection, if option
> `search/replace-2nd-sel-as-default-flag' is non-nil.
>
> * What the (function) value of option `search/replace-default-fn'
> returns, when called. This defaults to a function that grabs text at
> point. (If the function returns a list of strings, then those are the
> multiple default values.)
>
> (As with vanilla query-replace, you can also use the history lists,
> and you can enter nothing to repeat the previous query replacement
> operation.)
>
> I don't say that vanilla Emacs should do all of that. But maybe at
> least something like the third one - a function that returns a string or
> list of strings to be used as default values, and with, as its default
> value, a function that grabs some text at point.
query-replace-regexp already does all the above. It provides text
at point for first M-n, the last search string for the second M-n, etc.
- bug#41692: 26.3; Enhancement request, `query-replace': let user use text at point as default, Drew Adams, 2020/06/03
- bug#41692: 26.3; Enhancement request, `query-replace': let user use text at point as default,
Juri Linkov <=
- bug#41692: 26.3; Enhancement request, `query-replace': let user use text at point as default, Drew Adams, 2020/06/03
- bug#41692: 26.3; Enhancement request, `query-replace': let user use text at point as default, Juri Linkov, 2020/06/04
- bug#41692: 26.3; Enhancement request, `query-replace': let user use text at point as default, Drew Adams, 2020/06/04
- bug#41692: 26.3; Enhancement request, `query-replace': let user use text at point as default, Juri Linkov, 2020/06/11
- bug#41692: 26.3; Enhancement request, `query-replace': let user use text at point as default, Drew Adams, 2020/06/11
- bug#41692: 26.3; Enhancement request, `query-replace': let user use text at point as default, Drew Adams, 2020/06/11