From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: query-replace-interactive not documented Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:16:09 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <873c51w5rq.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <20040528.181649.25475113.wl@gnu.org> <200405291737.i4THbPJ06689@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <873c5jug73.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87oenqa4lu.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087028534 30264 80.91.224.253 (12 Jun 2004 08:22:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:22:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 12 10:22:07 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 1BZ3mB-0002sM-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:22:07 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZ3mA-0003iy-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:22:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZ3mx-000268-4V for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:22:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZ3mo-00025f-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:22:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZ3mm-00025T-T1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:22:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZ3mm-00025I-Ps for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:22:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.19] (helo=spoon.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZ3lc-0004YL-6H; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:21:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-39-208-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.39.208]) by spoon.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9917413D9F4; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:50:52 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:24861 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24861 Richard Stallman writes: > How about typing a special key (say, `M-e', where "e" stands for > "eval" or "expression") in the second prompt for a replacement string > to switch it to expression reading mode, and after typing RET > to call `query-replace-regexp-eval' instead of `query-replace-regexp'. > Actually, this means typing: > > C-M-% from-string RET M-e to-expr RET > > This is rather obsure, and ad hoc. This is not quite ad hoc. Some GNU programs already provide exactly the same feature. Here is an excerpt from `man less': /pattern [...] Certain characters are special if entered at the beginning of the pattern; they modify the type of search rather than become part of the pattern: [^N ^E ^F ^K skipped...] ^R Don't interpret regular expression metacharacters; that is, do a simple textual comparison. > So it is probably harder to remember than M-x que TAB - TAB - TAB, > which works now and can be found systematically from the command > name. What do you think about documenting `query-replace-regexp-eval' in the Emacs manual even without a keybinding? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/