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: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:33:05 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87fz8u19ou.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <20040528.181649.25475113.wl@gnu.org> <873c51w5rq.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87659snbd8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87llin98sc.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87n033y0yj.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 1087487376 14636 80.91.224.253 (17 Jun 2004 15:49:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:49:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 17 17:49:26 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 1Baz8o-0000J7-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:49:26 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Baz8n-0006bg-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:49:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Baz9q-00041w-Q2 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:50:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Baz9n-00041r-Jf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:50:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Baz9l-00041b-PY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:50:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Baz9l-00041R-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.4] (helo=spork.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Baz8c-0006aM-1y; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-38-227-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.38.227]) by spork.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5164011DC26; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "17 Jun 2004 16:56:35 +0200") 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:25064 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25064 David Kastrup writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Ok, I just redid this. I have completely thrown out \\? again: if >> one wanted to implement it, the right place would not be in >> preparing the replacement list where \, is implemented, but rather >> during perform-replace. >> >> This will give the context (so we don't need prompt strings), it >> will be flexible and convenient. Any volunteer to put this is? > > I'll take another look, maybe it's not difficult. > > I have checked in that change now. While I have not given much of a > time for protests, I want to have a starting point for thinking about > \?. I think your idea about using the replacement string editor for \? is very good. I hope you will not encounter any obstacles in implementing it. > I have not done any manual and NEWS entries yet but would want to have > a few more days for people to protest. In my book, this added > functionality pretty much kills the main motivation for > query-replace-regexp-eval, except maybe that the latter could offer > lisp-mode in the replacement string, to give identifier completion and > stuff (which I don't think it does currently). But I don't think that > it warrants a keybinding of its own anymore, now that \, is in place. Yes, we can completely forget about `query-replace-regexp-eval' from now. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/