From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: query-replace Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 11:28:45 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <87bqudhsox.fsf@ulm.malte.spiess> <87d5esvvd1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147109449 19639 80.91.229.2 (8 May 2006 17:30:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 17:30:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 08 19:30:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd9Yq-0001KD-30 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 19:30:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd9Yp-00030K-4x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 13:30:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd9Ye-000307-NC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 13:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd9Yc-0002zm-1w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 13:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd9Yc-0002zj-0H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 13:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fd9ZU-0006Zt-EC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 13:31:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd9YU-0001Dt-9i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 19:29:58 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 May 2006 19:29:58 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 May 2006 19:29:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) In-Reply-To: <87d5esvvd1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34904 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > Kevin Rodgers writes: >>> Even simpler is M-% _and_ RET _or_ (where the underscores represent >>> explicit spaces typed into the pattern strings. >> Which doesn't work if "and" occurs at the beginning or end of a line. > > Actually, the simplest way is to just use a `C-u' prefix to the replace > or query-replace command -- it causes the replacements only be done on > "word delimited" matches. > > So: C-u M-% and RET or RET > > (no significant spaces) Wow, that is very cool. I can't believe I wasn't aware of that feature. However, it would be even nicer if the prefix arg changed the prompt from "Query replace: " to something like "Query replace word(s): ". Thanks, -- Kevin