From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: should query-replace-regexp-eval be in the manual? Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:03:37 +0200 Message-ID: <85abx9wb0m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85ejmlwbd8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176674633 30314 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2007 22:03:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:03:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 16 00:03:47 2007 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 1HdCoy-0007dU-UR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:03:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdCtW-0000Ik-6b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:08:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HdCtT-0000Gx-Hb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HdCtS-0000DC-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdCtR-0000Cy-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:08:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.50]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HdCot-0007rx-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:03:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.16]) by mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A393B1F589C; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:03:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.44]) by mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96296ABAE7; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:03:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-027-249.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.27.249]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9BC1C71EE; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:03:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id C71341C2BC02; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:03:37 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <85ejmlwbd8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun\, 15 Apr 2007 23\:56\:03 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.96 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:69473 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Basically it has been my experience that query-replace-regexp-eval > is a nice idea, but in practice quite unusable. \, achieves a > similar purpose but with a much more convenient interface. To get back to the original question: since \, has all of the functionality of query-replace-regexp-eval with a more convenient interface, query-replace-regexp-eval could be considered obsolete or at least obscure. Since we tell people how to do the same thing more flexibly with \, I don't think that query-replace-regexp-eval deserves a place in the manual. It would be a lot of additional explanation without any conceivable benefit to the user. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum