From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Gabriele Nicolardi <gabriele@medialab.sissa.it>
Cc: 71430@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71430: Persistent Highlighting Issue with query-replace using "act-and-show" Option
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 11:33:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a5jvesuk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43f6ae01-d581-4b88-8914-da9943178c92@medialab.sissa.it> (message from Gabriele Nicolardi on Sat, 8 Jun 2024 09:29:41 +0200)
> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 09:29:41 +0200
> From: Gabriele Nicolardi <gabriele@medialab.sissa.it>
>
> I’ve encountered a potential bug in Emacs when using the |query-replace|
> (via |perform-replace|) functions. When performing text replacements
> across a buffer and choosing to replace but not immediately move the
> point (using the |,| |act-and-show| option), the function does replace
> the text as expected but fails to update the highlighting to the region
> containing the replacement.
>
> *Steps to Reproduce:*
>
> 1.
>
> Open a buffer with the following content:
>
> |String to be replaced. Another string. String to be replaced.
> Another string. End |
>
> 2.
>
> Run the following command:
>
> |(query-replace "String to be replaced." "Replacement." nil
> (point-min) (point-max)) |
>
> 3.
>
> When prompted to replace a match, use the |,| (|act-and-show|)
> option to replace the text but pause moving to the next match.
>
> *Expected Behavior:*
> After a replacement is made and before moving to the next match, the
> highlighted region of the replaced text should be “updated” to fit the
> replaced text.
>
> *Actual Behavior:*
> The highlighting remains on the matched region. This issue can be
> visually confirmed in the following animation:
You don't say in what version of Emacs you see the problematic
behavior. I can reproduce the behavior you report in Emacs 29, but
not in Emacs 30 (on the master branch of the Emacs Git repository).
So I think this bug was already solved on the master branch, which
will become Emacs 30.
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2024-06-08 7:29 bug#71430: Persistent Highlighting Issue with query-replace using "act-and-show" Option Gabriele Nicolardi
2024-06-08 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-06-08 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
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