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: 13 Jun 2004 11:03:19 +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> <873c51w5rq.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 1087117429 10070 80.91.224.253 (13 Jun 2004 09:03:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:03:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 13 11:03:43 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 1BZQtz-0004S3-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:03:43 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZQtz-0006rb-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:03:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZQuo-0003WL-Mc for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:04:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZQue-0003Rj-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:04:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZQud-0003RE-On for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:04:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZQud-0003R9-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZQtl-0002ae-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:03:30 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZQte-0003hH-8t; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:03:22 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 35 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:24911 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24911 Richard Stallman writes: > What do you think about documenting `query-replace-regexp-eval' > in the Emacs manual even without a keybinding? > > The reason I did not document it before is that I'm not sure it is > really very useful. I never use it. How many people here actually > use it? I do. One typical qpplication is M-x query-replace-regexp-eval RET \\footnote{ RET (format "\\footnote{\\label{fn:%d}" replace-count) RET Also other stuff where you want to replace with numerical expressions. Of course, most of these uses could be avoided if the replacement string of the ordinary query-replace-regexp would offer, say M-x query-replace-regexp RET \\footnote{ RET \\footnote{\\label{fn:\!replace-count} RET or \\footnote{\\label{fn:\!(format "%d" replace-count)} RET Namely \! followed by a sexp. This would allow the full flexibility of query-replace-regexp-eval without needing a separate command, and one would need to switch to Lisp only for the really needed passages instead of the whole replacement string. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum