Re: replace history

[Juri Linkov]

>>   > In Emacs 22 it's great the way that you are given the last
>>   > search/replace pair as a default for query-replace, but is there a way
>>   > to get a history of pairs rather than alternating search item/replace
>>   > item?
>>
>> There isn't. I would also love to have such a feature. Bound for example
>> to C-M-p and C-M-n
>
> FWIW I would also love this feature.
>
> Another idea: make `C-u M-x query-replace' *reverse* the default pair.

The prefix argument of `query-replace' is already assigned to the
delimited meaning to replace matches surrounded by word boundaries.

To reverse the last two query-replace history elements you already can use
`M-% M-p RET M-p M-p M-p RET'.

> This would be useful to undo a replacement.

Isn't the undo command a much easier way to undo the last replacement?

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Juri Linkov
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