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: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:22:19 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87n03aa4jk.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <20040528.181649.25475113.wl@gnu.org> <200405291737.i4THbPJ06689@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <878yeyczec.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 1086942615 22901 80.91.224.253 (11 Jun 2004 08:30:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 08:30:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 11 10:30:10 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 1BYhQQ-000891-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:30:10 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BYhQQ-0001kK-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:30:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYhR9-0000n5-AN for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 04:30:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYhQo-0000fM-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 04:30:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYhQm-0000eg-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 04:30:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYhQm-0000ed-0u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 04:30:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.19] (helo=spoon.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BYhPv-0002OJ-HJ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 04:29:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-36-27-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.36.27]) by spoon.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B53313D830; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 01:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <878yeyczec.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:55:07 +0300") 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:24816 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24816 Juri Linkov writes: > However, this variable might be useful in the following situation: > it can be set temporarily to t by typing M-% in isearch mode, which > can exit isearch mode and start query-replace with isearch string. > It's natural to assume that if the user types M-% or C-M-% in isearch > mode he wants to use the current search string as FROM-STRING for > query-replace and query-replace-regexp. I noticed that the commentary section of isearch.el has the following TODO item: ;; - Think about incorporating query-replace. Does anyone know what it was intended to do? Won't my proposal conflict with someone's plans by stealing isearch keybindings M-% and C-M-%? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/