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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
Cc: 54173@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54173: 28.0.91; Training wheels for query-replace
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 14:10:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tucksbey.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnhgtxzv.fsf@gmail.com> (Augusto Stoffel's message of "Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:17:08 +0100")

Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:

> -    (define-key map "y" 'act)
> -    (define-key map "n" 'skip)
>      (define-key map "Y" 'act)
> +    (define-key map "y" 'act)
>      (define-key map "N" 'skip)
> -    (define-key map "e" 'edit-replacement)
> +    (define-key map "n" 'skip)
>      (define-key map "E" 'edit-replacement)
> +    (define-key map "e" 'edit-replacement)

This seems unrelated, and just moves bindings around?

>> >   (‘y’/‘n’, ‘.’ replace & exit, ‘^’ back up, ‘?’ help)
>> 
>> I find this better than the status quo.  I've attached the patch.
>
> Thanks.  Let's wait a bit to let others chime in and express their
> opinions.

I'm not sure I understood the patch.  Is the proposal to append all that
to "Query replacing foo with bar"?  It'll make prompts commonly be
longer than a line, and it's pretty noisy, so if that's the proposal,
I'm against it.

The help is on `?', so I don't see the point, either.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-27 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-26 22:15 bug#54173: 28.0.91; Training wheels for query-replace Augusto Stoffel
2022-02-27  6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-27  7:55   ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-02-27  8:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-27  8:51       ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-02-27  9:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-27 10:17           ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-02-27 10:55             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-27 16:11               ` bug#54173: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-27 13:10             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-02-27 13:46               ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-03-03 16:41                 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-03-10 19:24                   ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-10 19:28                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-10 19:44                       ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-12 16:58                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-10 19:20     ` Juri Linkov

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