From: Michael Slass <miknrene@drizzle.com>
Subject: Re: Using interactive functions in functions
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 21:49:04 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m33cpau8b9.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1039209908.7595.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:
> Consider the following fragment which runs tags-query-replace on a
> number of strings:
>
> (let ((strings '("foo" "bar")))
> (while strings
> (tags-query-replace (car strings) "newstring")
> (setq strings (cdr strings)))
>
> However, this loop ends when tags-query-replace returns the first time
> so "bar" is never replaced.
>
What happens if you use query-replace (which see) instead?
--
Mike Slass
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2002-12-06 21:49 ` Michael Slass [this message]
2002-12-06 23:18 ` Using interactive functions in functions Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-12-06 21:24 Bill Wohler
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