From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Query replace question Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 07:40:20 -0700 Message-ID: <87tubw4p7v.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <20220317111952.zwm7bmvtsdnede7i.ref@Ergus> <20220317111952.zwm7bmvtsdnede7i@Ergus> <871qz0byu3.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4503"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:HlDGJyDTxBUgKh4Y4+vGe8F9VGM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 17 15:58:52 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nUraW-00013U-Po for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:58:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39602 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nUraV-0000RM-SS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nUrIk-0008S8-I5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:40:32 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:41178) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nUrIj-0002Wx-6L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:40:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nUrIf-0007pM-N9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:40:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136639 Archived-At: Robert Pluim writes: >>>>>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 12:19:52 +0100, Ergus said: > > Ergus> Hi: > Ergus> I am wondering if there is some functionality in vanilla to enable > Ergus> dynamic match highlight during query replace or query-replace regex > Ergus> while composing the regex? Similar to isearch lazy highlight, > Ergus> regex-highlight or re-builder; but for query-replace and the rest of the > Ergus> replace family? > > You can search with isearch and then switch to query-replace with M-% > from within isearch. There's also re-builder, which is interactive. It can sort of serve as a replacement for `isearch-forward-regexp', or you can copy the regexp once you've got it right, and use it in regexp replace.