From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move onto the next Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:21:38 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87tzlpw4j1.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199751966 11311 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2008 00:26:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:26:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 08 01:26:26 2008 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 1JC2IL-0003bR-8D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:26:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JC2Hx-0000Ny-VN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:25:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JC2HN-00007k-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JC2HM-000067-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:25:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JC2HL-00005v-Ol for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:25:15 -0500 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JC2HH-00030W-Ea; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:25:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JC2HD-000Hzw-TX; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:25:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:54:40 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: ba97961d419726f65b83e74233c16638 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1976 [Dec 29 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 19 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:86534 Archived-At: > You're right, but I'm not sure it would occur to most people. Maybe it's a > tip worth documenting in the case of `Q' and `A'? > > I will put that in the Emacs Manual > unless someone else does it first. I think this is too weird trick to quit the query-replace operation with M-> and resume it with tags-loop-continue M-,. Maybe instead of this we should try implementing native (i.e. without using etags) multi-file query-replace similar to recently implemented multi-file isearch? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/