From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move onto the next
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:54:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7az250e.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801080212.m082CO6p026445@jane.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:12:24 -0600 (CST)")
> I think this is too weird trick to quit the query-replace operation
> with M-> and resume it with tags-loop-continue M-,
>
> It is not a "trick", but a special case of a (to me) routine way to
> skip a series of occurrences known to be irrelevant by simply moving
> over them. You can (and I routinely do), use not just M->, but _any_
> motion command for that purpose. I have no idea what is "weird",
> unnatural or wrong about that. It certainly is very useful.
This is useful but unnatural comparing to clean user interfaces I have seen
that have an option to skip to the next file, and additional buttons like
"Yes to All" and "No to All".
Currently in Emacs calling tags-loop-continue can be hardly described as
a clean way to resume query-replace. And it also doesn't work in
single-file context which would be confusing.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-09 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-02 7:34 `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move on to the next Drew Adams
2008-01-03 9:50 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-03 10:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-03 10:27 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-03 16:17 ` Drew Adams
2008-01-03 15:56 ` Luc Teirlinck
2008-01-03 16:18 ` `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move onto " Drew Adams
2008-01-03 21:32 ` Juri Linkov
2008-01-04 2:11 ` Bastien
2008-07-15 0:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-15 7:38 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-20 0:33 ` Juri Linkov
2008-01-05 5:54 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-08 0:21 ` Juri Linkov
2008-01-08 0:33 ` Drew Adams
2008-01-08 19:08 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-09 0:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-01-09 1:47 ` Drew Adams
2008-01-08 2:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2008-01-09 0:54 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
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