From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, rms@gnu.org,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move onto the next
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:11:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prwigx01.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871w8ybpz8.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:32:35 +0200")
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>> Even so, it might not be bad to provide a key to skip to the next file
>> without exiting query-replace.
>
> Another problem I have with `Q' is that it requires typing `!' in every
> file to replace all occurrences. So if I want to replace all occurrences
> in ALL marked files at once without a query, I need typing `!' as many times
> as there are marked files.
>
> Maybe, when started by `Q', query-replace should apply `!' to all marked files,
> and a new key `Y' should replace all remaining occurrences in the current file,
> and a new key `N' should skip the current file as Miles has already proposed.
Agreed.
There is also this little annoyance: when replacing all occurrences in
the *last* marked file, hitting `!' always returns this error:
"All files processed"
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-04 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-02 7:34 `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move on to the next Drew Adams
2008-01-03 9:50 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-03 10:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-03 10:27 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-03 16:17 ` Drew Adams
2008-01-03 15:56 ` Luc Teirlinck
2008-01-03 16:18 ` `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move onto " Drew Adams
2008-01-03 21:32 ` Juri Linkov
2008-01-04 2:11 ` Bastien [this message]
2008-07-15 0:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-15 7:38 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-20 0:33 ` Juri Linkov
2008-01-05 5:54 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-08 0:21 ` Juri Linkov
2008-01-08 0:33 ` Drew Adams
2008-01-08 19:08 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-09 0:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-01-09 1:47 ` Drew Adams
2008-01-08 2:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2008-01-09 0:54 ` Juri Linkov
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