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Re: should query-replace-regexp-eval be in the manual?


From: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Subject: Re: should query-replace-regexp-eval be in the manual?
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:11:51 +0200
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David Kastrup wrote:
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

Basically it has been my experience that query-replace-regexp-eval
is a nice idea, but in practice quite unusable.  \, achieves a
similar purpose but with a much more convenient interface.

To get back to the original question: since \, has all of the
functionality of query-replace-regexp-eval with a more convenient
interface, query-replace-regexp-eval could be considered obsolete or
at least obscure.

Since we tell people how to do the same thing more flexibly with \, I
don't think that query-replace-regexp-eval deserves a place in the
manual.  It would be a lot of additional explanation without any
conceivable benefit to the user.

After reading this I think it would be a good idea to tell in the doc string for query-replace-regexp-eval to use query-replace-regexp + \ instead.




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