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From: Chunyang Xu <mail@xuchunyang.me>
To: Ole Laursen <olau@iola.dk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Interactive query-replace
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 12:47:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2h942mz35.fsf@xuchunyang.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANb2Ov+bJx+PezmhVnkzZ7CDoOB+wgB3omHtqMmDAWXh43dboQ@mail.gmail.com>

(I replied a empty message a minute ago by accident, sorry about that)

Ole Laursen writes:

> Search and replace has three phases:
>
> - Enter search term
> - Enter replacement term
> - Confirmation
>
> Only confirmation is interactive in Emacs.
>
> The search phase could move the cursor and highlight all matches as
> you type, just like isearch. Then we can see what we're about to
> overwrite.

The search term is also interactive if you start your query-replace from
isearch via the same keys (that is M-% ('isearch-query-replace')). I use
this whenever I am not sure if my search pattern is correct.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-10  4:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-09 21:27 Interactive query-replace Ole Laursen
2017-02-09 21:37 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-02-09 21:38   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-02-09 21:42 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-02-09 22:27   ` Ole Laursen
2017-02-10  4:38 ` Chunyang Xu
2017-02-10  4:47 ` Chunyang Xu [this message]
2017-02-10  6:03 ` Stefan Monnier

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