From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs manual nodes about text replacement
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:27:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873ahrnte2.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005801c94752$053e9e50$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:43:15 -0800")
> The presentation and order of the manual nodes describing text replacement could
> be improved. I don't have a concrete proposal, but here are some problems I see.
>
> The main node, Replace, starts by saying that you don't use global
> search-and-replace that much in Emacs. That's true in the batch (unconditional)
> sense, but query-replacement is commonly used. This could be made clearer:
> Unconditional global replacement is not needed that often. Most of the time you
> use conditional, interactive replacement - called query-replacement.
I can't find none of the text that you are referring to. What version do
you use? Recently Yidong rewrote many parts of the documentation, so
please refer to a newer version.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-16 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-15 18:43 Emacs manual nodes about text replacement Drew Adams
2008-11-16 23:27 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-11-17 1:36 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-17 2:04 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-17 7:22 ` Drew Adams
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