Re: Word Delimited Query Replace

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Currently, M-s w is broken, and I'll will try to fix it.  But even
> after it is fixed, I think it would be good to provide two ways to run
> word replacement from isearch, exactly as we already provide two ways
> to run regexp replacement:
>   regexp search/replace: C-M-s M-% and C-s C-M-%
>     word search/replace: M-s w M-% and C-s C-u M-%

I'd rather discourage the second alternatives.  After all, C-s C-M-% is
rather odd since it'll use the string you searched as a regexp, so if
you were searching for the string "a*b" the replacement will not apply
to what isearch matched.

>> Also, are you sure your patch works?  As far as I can tell, C-u
>> currently leaves isearch, and I don't see anything in your patch that
>> would change it.
> I have isearch-allow-scroll=t, and it allows C-u to not leave isearch.
> Perhaps this should be the default behavior.

I'd rather not change it.


        Stefan