Re: Malformed interactive spec in replace.el

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > Which would definitely count as "getting into releasable state".  So
> > it appears that I owe you an apology and/or a beverage of your choice.
> 
> There were some bug fixes in the changes I installed, but the "default to
> foo -> bar" is definitely a "new feature" rather than a "bug fix".

Well, there was discussion over it over the weekend while I was away.
Anyway, I don't think I want the query-replace prompt to take up four
staggered lines in case that my last replacement happened to be a
multi-line one.  Putting the stuff in some history where it will
appear on-demand is fine, but cluttering the prompt into 5 lines
because of some replacement I did hours ago does not feel like a good
idea to me.  And there is little point in displaying long things I
can't change, anyhow.  So either we should have a rather short
"(default to last)", or we should just rely on the user taking the
history to task.

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