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 22:45:27 +0200 (CEST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040529.224527.172929633.wl@gnu.org> References: <20040529.190550.169880098.wl@gnu.org> <20040529175018.GA16739@fencepost> 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 1085863640 5030 80.91.224.253 (29 May 2004 20:47:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 20:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 29 22:47:12 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 1BUAjY-0000HM-00 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 22:47:12 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BUAjX-0006ql-00 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 22:47:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BUAje-0007uD-3t for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 16:47:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BUAjc-0007tx-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 16:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BUAja-0007tl-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 16:47:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BUAja-0007ti-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 16:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.177] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BUAiS-0000bs-1r; Sat, 29 May 2004 16:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.208] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BUAiR-0004In-00; Sat, 29 May 2004 22:46:03 +0200 Original-Received: from [80.129.82.59] (helo=orion.univie.ac.at) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (TLSv1:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BUAiR-0003Q7-00; Sat, 29 May 2004 22:46:03 +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 i4TKjS419075; Sat, 29 May 2004 22:45:28 +0200 Original-To: miles@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20040529175018.GA16739@fencepost> 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:24193 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24193 > > 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'. > > Surely you don't repeat query-replace commands so often that `M-% > RET' is significantly harder to type than `M-% M-%'? Aah, a misunderstanding! I thought that I have to type `M-% M-% RET'. Of course `M-% RET' is fine. Actually, `M-% M-%' and `M-% RET' could do the same... Werner