From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: TIL about string-rectangle
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 17:24:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANc-5UxJqMN6Q7q6p-mO7nQdD24ssXA00dyhy6gM+tnF=SyptQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <baf0e97d-350b-4e75-ba61-5c89ea764bdd@default>
> > Hmmm... That doesn't work for me. I've used rectangles a lot over the
> > years and have never seen query-replace and friends be constrained by
> > the currently defined rectangle.
>
> Are you sure? After you activate the (rectangular)
> region, you may need to use `C-x C-x', so point is
> before mark, because query-replacing moves forward
> from point.
I used query-replace which highlights what it will replace. When I saw
it highlight strings outside the region, I thought, "Hmmm... That
doesn't look right." I accepted one substitution, and it moved onto
the next. It moved onto the next instance, which was outside the
rectangle.
> Works for me, with `emacs -Q' (no init file).
Just tried with -Q. Same result. It highlighted and wanted to replace
strings outside the defined rectangle. Not sure what's going on.
Skip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-30 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-30 20:59 TIL about string-rectangle Skip Montanaro
2020-12-30 21:37 ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-30 22:11 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 8:03 ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-31 10:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-31 12:44 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 14:32 ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-30 21:43 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 22:08 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-30 23:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:23 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:24 ` Skip Montanaro [this message]
2020-12-31 7:15 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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