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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Joe'" <joesmoe10@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: regexp-replace default
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:45:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000801c92f0f$64f14c40$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c524c108-7137-4135-8ff8-39d7d504d29b@u28g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>

> Hopefully a simple question for the emacs wizards out there.  Say I do
> a regexp-relace of:
> 
> M-x replace-regexp
>   Replace regexp: foo
>   Replace regexp with: bar
> 
> But then I realize I actually wanted foo to baz.  When I do M-x
> replace-regexp it shows me the default
> 
> M-x replace-regexp
>   Replace regexp (default foo -> bar):
> 
> Is there someway to get the default text and edit that instead of
> typing it in again?

Normally in Emacs `C-n' inserts the default value into the minibuffer for
editing/RET.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15 21:17 regexp-replace default Joe
2008-10-15 21:44 ` David Kastrup
2008-10-15 21:45 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-10-15 21:57 ` Xah

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