Re: replacing endline

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Fredrik Bulow wrote:
>>> I don't see why this behavior shouldn't be labeled as a bug.
>>>       
>> if you label that behavior as a bug, then you have introduced two
>> "bugs", not just one.  the first bug is in your mental model of how
>> emacs should work, and the second, the one labeled as suggested.  if
>> you pre-emptively fix the first bug, perhaps the second bug will, as a
>> result, vanish as well.
>>
>> applying the above thought process to various behaviors, you may
>> be able to find and remove many bugs in the future.  good luck!
>>
>> thi
>>     
>
> Thanks for that totally uncalled for insult.
If thi thinks there are two bugs then I think there are three now since 
I agree with Fredrik. Or should it maybe be four thi, if perhaps you are 
a bit wrong too?;-)

>
> So once again, what is the good reason that (query-replace "\n" "#")
> behave differenty than calling the same function with its keybinding
> and providing it interactively with the same arguments?
>   
I also have difficulties understanding the prompting in cases like this. 
I have nothing against the "C-q C-j" solution but it is not the first I 
think of. Is there any reason not to just convert the input as needed so 
that it in the interactive case works as Fredrik and I expect it to do?

This would make it easier at least for relative beginners. Could it be 
done in such a way that it is still easy for those who are accustomed to 
the current behaviour?