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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
Cc: 72147@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72147: 30.0.60; 30.0.60; Misleading regexp highlighting in 'Q' dired command
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:50:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86le1xkh8w.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0bsn0ok.fsf@gmail.com> (Visuwesh's message of "Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:13:07 +0530")

> When using the Q command in dired to query-replace-regexp across marked
> files in dired, the regexp typed in the first prompt highlights text in
> the _dired_ buffer.
>
> To reproduce,
>
>         1. emacs -Q
>         2. C-x d ~
>         3. Q -
>
> Notice how the dashes in the permission fields are highlighted.  This is
> misleading and even confusing.  It would be better to turn off regexp
> highlighting for this command.  The attached patch does the job on my
> end.  Let binding the variable this way does not turn off
> lazy-highlighting during the replacement.
>
> @@ -3801,9 +3801,10 @@ dired-do-query-replace-regexp
>    (interactive
> -   (let ((common
> -	  (query-replace-read-args
> -	   "Query replace regexp in marked files" t t)))
> +   (let* ((query-replace-lazy-highlight)
> +          (common
> +	   (query-replace-read-args
> +	    "Query replace regexp in marked files" t t)))

Thanks, I tried your patch, but it has no effect since
by default Q is bound to dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace.
Shouldn't query-replace-lazy-highlight be added to all
functions in dired that use query-replace-read-args?





  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-19  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-17  3:43 bug#72147: 30.0.60; 30.0.60; Misleading regexp highlighting in 'Q' dired command Visuwesh
2024-07-19  6:50 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2024-07-19  8:25   ` Visuwesh
2024-07-23  6:37     ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-23  9:27       ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-23 17:40         ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-24 17:09           ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-25 18:08             ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-28  4:59               ` Visuwesh
2024-07-28  6:54                 ` Juri Linkov

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