From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move onto the next Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:38:07 +0200 Message-ID: <487C53DF.9010808@gmail.com> References: <871w8ybpz8.fsf@jurta.org> <87prwigx01.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87vdz8yp9f.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216107506 20502 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2008 07:38:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 15 09:39:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KIf7y-00025v-91 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:39:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45653 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIf76-0002gU-0F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIf71-0002gC-7Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:38:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIf6z-0002fo-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:38:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52604 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIf6z-0002fl-FF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:38:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:45018) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIf6z-0007yI-4a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:38:13 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIf6y-0003n5-D6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:38:12 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:63079 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KIf6x-0001RO-8k; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:38:11 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87vdz8yp9f.fsf@jurta.org> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080712-0, 2008-07-12), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KIf6x-0001RO-8k. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KIf6x-0001RO-8k a7052068b1eae103af2c6d468df10e2e X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100722 Archived-At: Juri Linkov wrote: >>>> Even so, it might not be bad to provide a key to skip to the next file >>>> without exiting query-replace. >>> Another problem I have with `Q' is that it requires typing `!' in every >>> file to replace all occurrences. So if I want to replace all occurrences >>> in ALL marked files at once without a query, I need typing `!' as many times >>> as there are marked files. >>> >>> Maybe, when started by `Q', query-replace should apply `!' to all marked files, >>> and a new key `Y' should replace all remaining occurrences in the current file, >>> and a new key `N' should skip the current file as Miles has already proposed. >> Agreed. > > I see that this useful feature is not yet implemented, so I have > made a patch that implements multi-file query-replace UI. Thanks for implementing this.