From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15245: Search and replace, but based on text properties (inclulding face properties) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 11:43:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1a1a4777-1915-4243-9c7d-9af0c147337e@default> References: <87r4d7yf1d.fsf@gmail.com> <0b79b9b5-706a-4739-b4a3-b6bd19aea0bf@default> <87d2or5erm.fsf@gmail.com> <46bb3911-d691-4381-8174-67ad23ddf9e4@default> <877gez13oy.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378147524 4144 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2013 18:45:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 18:45:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15245@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 02 20:45:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VGZ7r-0007f2-SY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:45:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41618 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGZ7r-0001DX-Gt for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:45:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41092) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGZ7g-0001AS-3P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:45:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGZ7X-0001HN-GY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:45:12 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57735) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGZ7X-0001Fe-DK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VGZ7W-0007zp-Sg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:45:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Drew Adams Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 18:45:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15245 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 15245-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15245.137814744830653 (code B ref 15245); Mon, 02 Sep 2013 18:45:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15245) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Sep 2013 18:44:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37795 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VGZ6d-0007yK-Es for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:44:08 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:26998) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VGZ6a-0007xi-4q for 15245@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:44:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r82IhuWX025573 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 2 Sep 2013 18:43:57 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r82Iht9t021208 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 2 Sep 2013 18:43:56 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt105.oracle.com (abhmt105.oracle.com [141.146.116.57]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r82IhtM5026497; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 18:43:55 GMT In-Reply-To: <877gez13oy.fsf@gmail.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:77916 Archived-At: > > Also, when you say "convert" it makes me realize that you asked about > > search and *replace*, not just search. Not sure what you have in mind > > there. [snip - explanation of what was meant] > This is a quick and dirty way of "importing" an HTML document in to > plain markup text. I have a feeling that it can be useful. I see. Well the Isearch feature I suggested won't really help with that. You can of course use `M-%' in Isearch to kick into a query-replace. But `query-replace' just picks up the last search string. It has no notion of search contexts, AFAIK. Now maybe things could also be tweaked to make `query-replace' respect such contexts. In the case of character-property searching, that would mean making `query-replace' sensitive somehow to `isearch-filter-predicate'= . Perhaps Juri has a suggestion in this regard. He's pretty much the resident expert on Isearch. Or perhaps you see a solution wrt this.