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: improving query-replace and query-replace-regexp Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 13:03:25 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040528.182035.197345599.wl@gnu.org> <87r7rto2by.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088960651 25271 80.91.224.253 (4 Jul 2004 17:04:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 17:04:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 04 19:04:01 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 1BhAPJ-00021U-00 for ; Sun, 04 Jul 2004 19:04:01 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BhAPJ-0008Md-00 for ; Sun, 04 Jul 2004 19:04:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BhARE-0001o5-JX for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2004 13:06:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BhAR2-0001no-AZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2004 13:05:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BhAR1-0001nc-UJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2004 13:05:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BhAR1-0001nS-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2004 13:05:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BhAOn-00058A-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2004 13:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BhAOj-00088H-TS; Sun, 04 Jul 2004 13:03:25 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <87r7rto2by.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sat, 03 Jul 2004 12:45:05 +0300) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25443 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25443 When using this, the prompt and a sample input string might look like this: Query replace (sep=" -> "): x -> y That is an interesting idea. It might be a shocking change for users, but it might be a good improvement. It would be a useful thing for some people to try this out for a while. But I'd like to remind everyone that we should focus now on the tasks in admin/FOR-RELEASE, so that we can make another release, not on looking for improvements to make.