RE: History for query replace pairs

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> query-replace has a nice feature offering the previous
> search/replacement pair as a default, to quickly repeat
> the previous search/replace. I find it quite useful.
> 
> Often it would also be useful to quickly retrieve
> other previous search/replacement pairs. I know I can
> select them separately by selecting first the search string
> from the history and then the replacement, but I find
> that in most cases I want to use the same replacement which
> I used previously for that search.
> 
> So a search/replacement pairs history would be quite useful,
> it may even be more useful (more frequently used) and
> more convenient than the current history if it were available.
> 
> The question is: how could it be integrated into the current
> query-replace interface, that is how could the user choose
> from a history of defaults (if he does not want to choose the
> latest default which he can access with RET).

You can access the history of those pairs using `C-x ESC ESC'
(`repeat-complex-command').  But that is the history of all
complex commands, so you might to cycle to the pair you want,
or fish it out using, say, `M-r'.