From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Curious: Why is there no binding for replace-string "out of the box"?
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:47:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1rimkK-0005zm-6g@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p91le6un5xp.fsf@google.com> (raman@google.com)
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> more importantly replace-string is not bound. That is what I was trying to say>
The useful key bindings are limited, so we have to choose the most
important uses of them. Given there is a binding for quere-replace,
and you can get the effect of replace-string with quere-replace followed by !,
I decided there was no need to use up a binding for replace-string.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-09 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-06 21:12 Curious: Why is there no binding for replace-string "out of the box"? T.V Raman
2024-03-06 21:59 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-03-07 2:15 ` T.V Raman
2024-03-07 6:17 ` Yuri Khan
2024-03-07 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-09 2:47 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2024-03-09 16:55 ` T.V Raman
2024-03-07 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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