From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Advanced query-replace-regexp in code
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 21:57:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-67DA09.21570930052009@mara100-84.onlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8166.1243709727.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.8166.1243709727.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgard) wrote:
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
> > Regardless of whether they should or shouldn't use it, it still seems
> > strange that the function interprets the second argument differently
> > depending on whether it's use interactively or programmatically.
>
> It doesn't; the magic is in the interactive form.
Which seems like a silly place to put it, when it could just as easily
be in the main body of the function.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-31 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-27 14:03 Advanced query-replace-regexp in code Nordlöw
2009-05-27 14:32 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-28 1:19 ` Barry Margolin
2009-05-28 4:57 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-05-28 7:04 ` Barry Margolin
2009-05-28 19:36 ` Johan Bockgård
[not found] ` <mailman.8013.1243539406.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-29 2:14 ` Barry Margolin
2009-05-30 6:34 ` Nordlöw
2009-05-30 18:55 ` Johan Bockgård
[not found] ` <mailman.8166.1243709727.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-31 1:57 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2009-05-28 19:50 ` harven
2009-08-02 16:19 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-02 17:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-08-02 20:25 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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