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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