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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: should query-replace-regexp-eval be in the manual?
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:37:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HdTGw-0000vU-WE@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ejmlwbd8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:56:03 +0200)

    Basically it has been my experience that query-replace-regexp-eval is
    a nice idea, but in practice quite unusable.  \, achieves a similar
    purpose but with a much more convenient interface.

Could you write some text to document the \ feature in the Emacs Manual?

    To get back to the original question: since \, has all of the
    functionality of query-replace-regexp-eval with a more convenient
    interface, query-replace-regexp-eval could be considered obsolete or
    at least obscure.

I think its doc string should mention that the \ feature is more
convenient for interactive use, and the function should be marked
obsolete.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-16 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-13 16:41 should query-replace-regexp-eval be in the manual? Drew Adams
2007-04-14  9:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-04-14 14:43   ` Drew Adams
2007-04-15 21:56     ` David Kastrup
2007-04-15 22:03       ` David Kastrup
2007-04-15 22:11         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-15 22:55           ` Drew Adams
2007-04-16  0:51             ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-04-16  3:45               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-15 22:54       ` Drew Adams
2007-04-16 15:37       ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-04-16 17:22         ` David Kastrup
2007-04-17 18:03           ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-17 23:27             ` David Kastrup
2007-04-18 14:56               ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-18 16:37                 ` David Kastrup

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