Re: [Patch] Add project.el command to replace symbol at point throughout project

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Cc: eskinjp@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 03:19:12 +0200
> 
> The conceptual problem with that is we have a number of commands which 
> produce a list of matches in an Xref buffer:
> 
> xref-find-references,
> xref-find-apropos,
> project-find-regexp,
> project-or-external-find-regexp
> 
> They're all fairly, so I won't think there's a change of implementing 
> any meaningful automatic switching based on context.
> 
> Do we create the -and-replace counterpart only for xref-find-references?

Yes, that's what I wanted to propose.

> There's also dired-do-find-regexp for which we have added said 
> counterpart already (dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace), but that was 
> primarily for backward compatibility of the UI.

Right.

> >> Or you can do a search with M-? and then press 'r'. Have you tried that?
> > 
> > At some point.  But I think someone who wants refactoring might have
> > trouble discovering that, and a separate command will make that
> > easier.
> 
> I rather remember the old recommendation to 'M-x find-grep-dired' 
> followed by '% m RET .*' and 'M-x dired-do-query-replace-regexp', when 
> one wanted to replace across the project. I think we're rather spoiled 
> these days by comparison.
> 
> Anyway, if you're sure adding xref-find-references-and-replace will 
> help, I've got no problem with that.

I think it will be a good addition to what we already have in that
department.  And given that we document it in the user manual, it
should become known to users soon enough.