From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: improving query-replace and query-replace-regexp Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 19:05:50 +0200 (CEST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040529.190550.169880098.wl@gnu.org> References: <20040528.182035.197345599.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085850522 11347 80.91.224.253 (29 May 2004 17:08:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 17:08:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 29 19:08:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BU7Jx-0007UR-00 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 19:08:33 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BU7Jx-0002QM-00 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 19:08:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BU7K2-0000IL-Tl for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 13:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BU7Jk-0000BN-Db for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 13:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BU7Ji-0000Aw-DJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 13:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BU7Ji-0000Ab-6O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 13:08:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.184] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BU7IY-0002lz-Pe; Sat, 29 May 2004 13:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.160] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BU7IV-0001m1-00; Sat, 29 May 2004 19:07:03 +0200 Original-Received: from [80.129.74.129] (helo=orion.univie.ac.at) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (TLSv1:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BU7IV-0004wS-00; Sat, 29 May 2004 19:07:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.univie.ac.at (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) with ESMTP id i4TH5o418134; Sat, 29 May 2004 19:05:50 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mew version 4.0.65 on Emacs 21.3.50.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:2dc398bc694a1e60948148ba0a42c0da X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:24184 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24184 > After a M-%, you should already be able to continue the same > query-replace action with: M-% RET > > That sounds like an acceptable feature. I don't think an empty > argument to M-% makes any other sense. I just wonder why I still have to type `RET'. A query-replace action doesn't happen immediately; you still have to press `y', `n', etc. Thus I suggest, if possible, to omit the `RET'. Werner