From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: should query-replace-regexp-eval be in the manual? Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:45:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176695498 11976 80.91.229.12 (16 Apr 2007 03:51:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:51:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bob@rattlesnake.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 16 05:51:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HdIFN-0002c1-Lf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:51:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdIJw-0002CE-IZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:56:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HdIJs-0002C9-Jf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HdIJq-0002AK-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:55:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdIJq-0002AH-2y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:55:58 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts16.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.4] helo=tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HdIFG-0001g5-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:51:14 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([74.12.205.57]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070416035113.DNYA1673.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1F45D8029; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:45:08 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Mon\, 16 Apr 2007 00\:51\:09 +0000 \(UTC\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69478 Archived-At: > The discussion of query-replace-regexp presumes using it > interactively. That does not necessarily follow, although I suppose > interactive use is most common. Not only that, but non-interactive uses of query-replace commands is generally deprecated in favor of while/search/replace-match loops. Stefan