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Re: Word Delimited Query Replace
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Word Delimited Query Replace |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:37:03 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> Currently, M-s w is broken, and I'll will try to fix it. But even
> after it is fixed, I think it would be good to provide two ways to run
> word replacement from isearch, exactly as we already provide two ways
> to run regexp replacement:
> regexp search/replace: C-M-s M-% and C-s C-M-%
> word search/replace: M-s w M-% and C-s C-u M-%
I'd rather discourage the second alternatives. After all, C-s C-M-% is
rather odd since it'll use the string you searched as a regexp, so if
you were searching for the string "a*b" the replacement will not apply
to what isearch matched.
>> Also, are you sure your patch works? As far as I can tell, C-u
>> currently leaves isearch, and I don't see anything in your patch that
>> would change it.
> I have isearch-allow-scroll=t, and it allows C-u to not leave isearch.
> Perhaps this should be the default behavior.
I'd rather not change it.
Stefan
Word Delimited Query Replace (was: read-regexp), Juri Linkov, 2008/10/18