On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:27 PM Ole Laursen <olau@iola.dk> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I realized the other day that search and replace in Emacs isn't very
> interactive when a coworker showed me another editor he was
> experimenting with. What he somehow did there seemed like something
> Emacs would do when query-replacing, only it doesn't.
>
> Search and replace has three phases:
>
> - Enter search term
> - Enter replacement term
> - Confirmation
>
> Only confirmation is interactive in Emacs.
>
> The search phase could move the cursor and highlight all matches as
> you type, just like isearch. Then we can see what we're about to
> overwrite.
>

Looks like the multiple-cursors package (
https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el ) will do it. It's available
via Melpa.
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Kaushal Modi