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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>, 15530@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15530: swapping replace queries - feature request
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 07:11:57 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ebb5218-decb-4d9f-821e-9c944775b1e6@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524FB6EE.5040200@easy-emacs.de>

> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19189213/emacs-swapping-replace-queries
> Calling query-replace with C-u could swap the expressions presented
> initially.

Please don't.  As was pointed out at that URL: YAGNI. Just use `M-p' a
couple of times.  And you only need to reverse them once, to be able to
reuse the reversed order.

Using `C-u' just to reverse previous inputs would be a waste.  One can
easily dream up more important uses for a prefix arg for `M-%' here.

(What I do for `M-%' is combine regular q-r, regexp q-r, and word q-r,
distinguishing by prefix arg (regular: none, regexp: 0/+, word: -).  Not
saying that's what vanilla Emacs should do - just one example of better
uses for the prefix arg here.)





      reply	other threads:[~2013-10-05 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-05  6:51 bug#15530: swapping replace queries - feature request Andreas Röhler
2013-10-05 14:11 ` Drew Adams [this message]

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