Re: History for query replace pairs

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Juri.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:02:52PM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
> >>> So the first RET will actually do almost the same as TAB would do
> >>> in the two-field minibuffer to switch to editing the TO part.
> >> This is the minimal patch to implement this.  Opinions?

> > I think this is "too minimal".  I much prefer the UI where you get both
> > FROM and TO at the same time in the minibuffer.

> There are two ways to get both FROM and TO in the minibuffer:

> 1. On typing some key in the FROM reading minibuffer, insert the second
>    field TO with a read-only separator between FROM and TO.

> 2. Display both FROM and TO initially.  Then to use RET or TAB to switch
>    from FROM to TO, and S-TAB to switch back from TO to FROM.

How about, simply, TAB to switch to the other field?  S-TAB doesn't exist
on a tty.  This would create a slight inconsistency with C-s, where TAB
is a self-inserting character.

> But the main question in both cases which key to use to browse FROM-TO pairs
> from the minibuffer's history?  It seems both M-p and <up> should still get
> either FROM or TO from the history one by one, so it would be easy to reuse
> a previous TO for the FROM part (to invert replacements).  What about <M-up>?

M-up doesn't exist on a tty either.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).