From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Curious: Why is there no binding for replace-string "out of the box"? Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:47:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87frx36myt.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5120"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "T.V Raman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 09 03:48:31 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rimlD-00019g-7U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2024 03:48:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rimkO-0006Fv-K2; Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:47:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rimkM-0006FY-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:47:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rimkK-0007l3-Qh; Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:47:36 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=J7Srzg4zlE6x8Bm8MaDubq9tHSEjU8ZYtyK+xUflq3I=; b=EeB2whBYqHKN OKxh+LdwwYlIk1YBX6QwxhfowaGtJpyBP+lotC08JIauGT+/b0dQSfSUJ9clzv8dfbx7qtQNm/OUQ GgjHrWe66zkoGRPfJmaNsbqIxyq8RMC/NzrIl2ShCWYF4clxM5WsaaGxGbN5Ym+t6EDRA/ExhtP/N l09U1QLu1Wm274+TYmWb60apWzyLhqAt+KI9zh0u+mMl2TUZ1Zr/VKLZmPZohz/bgNpX0NTg6Dt38 ARcmgK30WM22bKft393ON6qd/3F0j1yXo6H/VIOmd5xfZlJFiCg0KonzX8tFEzCzumgrt0cAhixxg VrwFFQidcgN7Q8SRoXmE6A==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rimkK-0005zm-6g; Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:47:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: (raman@google.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:316931 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > more importantly replace-string is not bound. That is what I was trying to say> The useful key bindings are limited, so we have to choose the most important uses of them. Given there is a binding for quere-replace, and you can get the effect of replace-string with quere-replace followed by !, I decided there was no need to use up a binding for replace-string. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)