From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 46783@debbugs.gnu.org, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#46783: Catch mistaken (query-replace "a" "a")
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:49:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874khz17mr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874khzmcka.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:57:09 +0100")
>>>>> On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:57:09 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:
Lars> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
>> One might say "well there are still some uses for replacing the same
>> thing with itself." No, wrong.
Lars> There is -- to remove text properties.
Lars> I'm not sure that's a compelling use case, though.
I find the following quite useful:
(require 'char-fold)
(setq replace-char-fold t)
C-x 8 RET e1 RET
(goto-char (point-min)
M-x query-replace RET a RET a
Robert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-26 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-25 22:27 bug#46783: Catch mistaken (query-replace "a" "a") 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-02-26 8:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-26 9:49 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2021-02-27 4:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-26 15:59 ` bug#46783: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-27 16:10 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-27 23:07 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-02-28 6:17 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-01 3:52 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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