From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87y7az250e.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87tzlpw4j1.fsf@jurta.org> <200801080212.m082CO6p026445@jane.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199841922 3032 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2008 01:25:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 01:25:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Luc Teirlinck Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 09 02:25:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JCPhM-0005QA-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:25:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCPgy-00088Y-P5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:25:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCPgt-00085x-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:25:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCPgq-00082Z-F0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCPgq-000829-2V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCPgm-0002lp-20; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:25:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JCPgg-000Iwd-ID; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:25:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200801080212.m082CO6p026445@jane.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:12:24 -0600 (CST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 5389b9e13478507b5d7b23e4ed053241 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1976 [Dec 29 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 19 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86601 Archived-At: > 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/