From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: should query-replace-regexp-eval be in the manual?
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:11:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4622A327.5060705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85abx9wb0m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
David Kastrup wrote:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Basically it has been my experience that query-replace-regexp-eval
>> is a nice idea, but in practice quite unusable. \, achieves a
>> similar purpose but with a much more convenient interface.
>
> To get back to the original question: since \, has all of the
> functionality of query-replace-regexp-eval with a more convenient
> interface, query-replace-regexp-eval could be considered obsolete or
> at least obscure.
>
> Since we tell people how to do the same thing more flexibly with \, I
> don't think that query-replace-regexp-eval deserves a place in the
> manual. It would be a lot of additional explanation without any
> conceivable benefit to the user.
After reading this I think it would be a good idea to tell in the doc
string for query-replace-regexp-eval to use query-replace-regexp + \
instead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-15 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-13 16:41 should query-replace-regexp-eval be in the manual? Drew Adams
2007-04-14 9:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-04-14 14:43 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-15 21:56 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-15 22:03 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-15 22:11 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-04-15 22:55 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-16 0:51 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-04-16 3:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-15 22:54 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-16 15:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-16 17:22 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-17 18:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-17 23:27 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-18 14:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-18 16:37 ` David Kastrup
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