From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Andrew Helsley <helsleya@cs.ucr.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isearch: lazy-highlighting of sub-exps of regexps
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:48:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvipzo3xs8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oc9g7t08.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:59:27 +0000")
>> Attached is a patch for `isearch-mode'. With this enhancement, the user
>> can easily see examples of what the groups in their regular expressions
>> capture as they type them. Using this feedback should make it easier for
>> the user to accurately build a replacement string when they invoke
>> query-replace-regexp' directly from `isearch-mode'.
Of course, to make it yet a bit easier, we should provide an "ireplace"
mode (where the replacement is shown incrementally as the user types
the replacement spec).
> Thanks, but we already have a request in the bug database with a set
> of different patches to implement it: http://debbugs.gnu.org/6227
> There is no decision yet what is the best of them.
Could someone take a close look and install such a feature?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-23 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-22 10:38 [PATCH] isearch: lazy-highlighting of sub-exps of regexps Andrew Helsley
2010-11-23 0:59 ` Juri Linkov
2010-11-23 14:48 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-11-24 1:55 ` Juri Linkov
2010-11-24 2:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-24 5:03 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-25 1:39 ` Juri Linkov
2010-11-25 3:20 ` Drew Adams
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