From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: query-replace-interactive not documented Date: 16 Jun 2004 00:43:37 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040528.181649.25475113.wl@gnu.org> <200405291737.i4THbPJ06689@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <873c5jug73.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87oenqa4lu.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <873c51w5rq.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87659snbd8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <878yeoadpd.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087339445 1945 80.91.224.253 (15 Jun 2004 22:44:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:44:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Andreas Schwab , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 16 00:43:46 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BaMeg-0004pE-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:43:46 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BaMeg-0008VN-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:43:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BaMfd-0004LS-T8 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:44:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BaMfV-0004LK-VJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:44:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BaMfU-0004L7-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:44:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BaMfU-0004L4-Cv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:44:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.236] (helo=pfepb.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BaMeJ-0003XM-R5; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:43:24 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id ACE7C5EE003; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:43:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25013 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25013 David Kastrup writes: > Andreas Schwab writes: > > > Juri Linkov writes: > > > > > Index: replace.el > > > =================================================================== > > > RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/replace.el,v > > > retrieving revision 1.172 > > > diff -c -r1.172 replace.el > > > *** replace.el 10 Jun 2004 04:21:14 -0000 1.172 > > > --- replace.el 15 Jun 2004 17:57:28 -0000 > > > *************** > > > *** 174,179 **** > > > --- 183,199 ---- > > > (if (and transient-mark-mode mark-active) > > > (region-end))))) > > > > > > + (if (string-match "\\\\'" to-string) > > > + (let (to expr) > > > + (while (string-match "\\\\'" to-string) > > > > That needs more careful treatment, to handle cases like "\\\\'" where one > > wants to substitute a backslash followed by a single quote. > > I am going to take a stab at this. I don't like the \'(...) form -- to me ' means "DONT INTERPRET" Maybe \=(...) is better ? Also, \? could be used to ask the user for a string to insert at that point in each replacement... -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk