From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: quick 'perform last replace again' Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:43:06 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <857iervt0l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <873apfikj9.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> <853apfsa09.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87tzhvge1m.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208814110 16556 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2008 21:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:41:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 23:42:25 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jo3mG-0007Nh-1D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:42:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jo3lY-0000yO-Bn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:41:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!eweka.nl!hq-usenetpeers.eweka.nl!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng2.kpn.DE!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+XyQHORb+xAM83exDQPkdGNnUDk= Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Apr 2008 22:43:09 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c1b05576.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=hL^3K>b?<\BH3YB?8>]OJY[^TICV`H8_`hhQD^9QSCVg3dOFOIC5DBZVJ9KKfc4U1baaGMQgVYXW^?WTE Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158093 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53459 Archived-At: Phil Carmody writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Or use just M-% RET (which uses the defaults) and then . for >> act-and-exit. > > That seems to also fail horribly. > > M-% RET does not use what I used in my last search and replace. > Quite what it does use, I don't know, but after a file open, > an incremental search, and killing a buffer, it doesn't have > any default. In fact, immediately after the M-%, there is no > default either, it just thinks that I want to search for ''. > I'm running GNU Emacs 21.4.1 and 21.2.1 on a variety of archs, > they all behave the same way. If you insist on running outdated versions (I mean, even Debian stable has switched to 22.1 quite some time ago), you should mention that in your questions. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum