Re: replace regex takes long

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:17:26 +0200
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> replace.el explains:
> 
> 	This function is usually the wrong thing to use in a Lisp program.
> 	What you probably want is a loop like this:
> 	  (while (re-search-forward REGEXP nil t)
> 	    (replace-match TO-STRING nil nil))
> 	which will run faster and will not set the mark or print anything."

This explanation is not really relevant in this case, since the OP
did, in fact, invoke query-replace-regexp interactively, not from a
Lisp program.