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From: | Juri Linkov |
Subject: | bug#23484: 25.1.50; undo doesn't work properly in xref-query-replace-in-results |
Date: | Wed, 11 May 2016 00:34:11 +0300 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.93 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> Why not using an original search string instead of ‘.*’ thus avoiding >> tricks with isearch-filter-predicate/replace-re-search-function? > > A few reasons: > > - We don't actually save it. > - Being able to replace _any_ regexp inside the matches is a feature > (though maybe it's not going to be very popular). Honestly speaking, the ‘.*’ thing is quite confusing. More natural syntax is ‘\&’ like is used in e.g. ‘occur-read-primary-args’ to collect the entire match.
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