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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" <larsi@gnus.org>,
	"積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: "46783@debbugs.gnu.org" <46783@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#46783: [External] : bug#46783: Catch mistaken (query-replace "a" "a")
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 15:59:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SA2PR10MB4474D6B5CD41B3F7790BB4C5F39D9@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874khzmcka.fsf@gnus.org>

> > One might say "well there are still some uses for
> > replacing the same thing with itself." No, wrong.
> 
> There is -- to remove text properties.

This.

It's also possible that someone wants to use
the query-replace dialog as a means of either
navigating or checking something at each
occurrence (e.g. looking at the context),
e.g., as an alternative to using Isearch or
`occur'.

Yes, there are other ways to accomplish such
aims, but each way to accomplish something
can have advantages and disadvantages.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-26 15:59 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
2021-02-27  4:15     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-26 15:59   ` Drew Adams [this message]
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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