From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: TIL about string-rectangle
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:11:52 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <baf0e97d-350b-4e75-ba61-5c89ea764bdd@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANc-5Uw+xqjCuHCmBrhPaETwuD73h3+1D660Bwywb0AaV-roiA@mail.gmail.com>
> > You can also use the usual replacement commands
> > in a rectangular region. `C-x SPC' to establish
> > the region, then `C-M-%' or whatever, to search
> > and replace only with that rectangular region.
>
> 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.
Works for me, with `emacs -Q' (no init file).
___
(But as I said, to limit Isearch (not query-replace)
to the region you'll need library isearch+.el.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-30 23:11 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 [this message]
2020-12-30 23:23 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:24 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 7:15 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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