From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: query-replace-interactive not documented Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:50:53 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040528.181649.25475113.wl@gnu.org> <200405291737.i4THbPJ06689@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <878yeyczec.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87n03aa4jk.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087005109 29325 80.91.224.253 (12 Jun 2004 01:51:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:51:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 12 03:51:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BYxgO-0001Y5-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 03:51:44 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BYxgO-0006bd-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 03:51:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYxh9-0003eD-Md for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYxgf-0003Q7-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYxgc-0003OZ-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYxgc-0003Nt-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:51:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BYxfa-0001s5-8a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:50:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BYxfZ-0007PW-SR; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:50:53 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <87n03aa4jk.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:22:19 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:24851 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24851 I noticed that the commentary section of isearch.el has the following TODO item: ;; - Think about incorporating query-replace. Does anyone know what it was intended to do? I don't remember any specific plan, but I think the idea was that at some point you'd switch from isearch to query-replacing the current string. In other words, what you're talking about seems more or less the idea that was intended.