From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 48009@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48009: 28.0.50; Support query-regexp-replace using re-builder
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 05:46:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=7SdBBoBSvxMN9FQiiVwJOEiV_xp45d7fyKdMwz2gDSQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d285a7fb-f7bd-545f-1d1b-7ed4f9abb461@orcon.net.nz> (Phil Sainty's message of "Sun, 25 Apr 2021 15:36:07 +1200")
Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:
> It would be nice to be able to use `re-builder' to interactively
> craft a regexp to pass to `query-replace-regexp' in a streamlined
> manner.
I think it's a good idea.
> I initially wondered about a command for "query-replace-regexp but
> automatically using re-builder" (i.e. instead of typing M-C-%), but
> I'm not sure that would be very different to just binding `re-builder'
> to a key, as you'd still need a custom binding from inside re-builder
> to say you were done. Perhaps such a command would automatically
> close the re-builder buffer once the replacements stopped, though?
Why not make `query-replace-regexp' work exactly like isearch does,
i.e. interactively update its matches? I.e. why should users need to
know about `re-builder' to take advantage of this?
Something like that could be added in addition to a command to go from
`re-builder' to `query-replace-regexp'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-25 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-25 3:36 bug#48009: 28.0.50; Support query-regexp-replace using re-builder Phil Sainty
2021-04-25 10:46 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-04-25 14:51 ` Phil Sainty
2021-04-25 15:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-26 23:53 ` Tak Kunihiro
2021-05-03 3:42 ` Karthik Chikmagalur
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