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: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:07:51 -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> <873c5jug73.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87oenqa4lu.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <873c51w5rq.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87659snbd8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87llin98sc.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087448944 13114 80.91.224.253 (17 Jun 2004 05:09:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 05:09:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, schwab@suse.de, storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 17 07:08:58 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 1Bap90-0002xx-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:08:58 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bap90-0006ci-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:08:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BapA2-00044Z-Df for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bap9c-0003pY-78 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:09:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bap9b-0003p2-4f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:09:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bap9a-0003oQ-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:09:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bap7w-0007Y3-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:07:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Bap7v-0004WB-Ph; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:07:51 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on 16 Jun 2004 11:32:17 +0200) 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:25056 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25056 I'd rather say that since we already have special symbols \1 \2 \3 \#1 \#2 \#3, that the most natural choice would probably be just \# for the match number. Then we'd have \\label{fn:\,\# } RET I am not sure \# makes sense to use inside \,. It would also be hard to implement. And it would probably make sense to define \# as a string component on its own, too, so that we can just write \\label{fn:\#} RET if we want to. That is clean and natural, so I think it is a good feature. However, people will sometimes want to use the value in more complex computations, rather than just substituting it.