From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: query-replace-interactive not documented Date: 11 Jun 2004 11:00:32 +0200 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086944467 27524 80.91.224.253 (11 Jun 2004 09:01:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:01:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Luc Teirlinck , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 11 11:01:01 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 1BYhuH-0001dG-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:01:01 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BYhuG-0002CK-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:01:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYhv0-0008JX-BO for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 05:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYhut-0008JS-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 05:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYhus-0008JD-Rv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 05:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYhus-0008JA-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 05:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BYhtx-0005au-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 05:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BYhtp-0002Ia-Sd; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 05:00:34 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <87oenqa4lu.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:24824 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24824 Juri Linkov writes: > Juri Linkov writes: > > What should be documented in the Emacs manual is a very useful > > command `query-replace-regexp-eval'. It even deserves its own > > keybinding. But if there are no spare keybindings for it, then > > perhaps it could be invoked by a prefix arg of > > `query-replace-regexp' like e.g. C-u C-M-% ? > > I don't want to abandon the attempt to make this useful command more > accessible. > > How about typing a special key (say, `M-e', where "e" stands for > "eval" or "expression") in the second prompt for a replacement string > to switch it to expression reading mode, and after typing RET > to call `query-replace-regexp-eval' instead of `query-replace-regexp'. > Actually, this means typing: > > C-M-% from-string RET M-e to-expr RET This has the advantage that if one starts out with a replacement, and then figures that the replacement string needs to be as complicated as to have to be specified in Lisp, one does not need to abandon the already started replacement. Actually, I find myself doing this sort of starting over from M-% not too rarely. So perhaps we should apply this switch-type-of-replacement keybinding idea also to query-replace. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum