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query-replace-regexp has conflicting interactive defaults |
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Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:38:20 +0000 |
`query-replace-regexp' offers to repeat the last replacement, but
then goes off and does something exciting and new instead.
IMHO replace-regexp and friends should not default their
argument using the thing at point, because the user doesn't have
control of point: it is by definition at one end of the region to be
searched. That means the default is useful only in exceptional
cases, and just a distraction otherwise.
>From `emacs -Q':
M-% . RET ! RET ;; To put a replacement into the history.
M-b ;; To place point before the word "buffer" in *scratch*.
C-M-% ;; Prompts "Query replace regexp (default . -> !): ".
RET ;; Prompts "Query replace regexp \_<buffer\.\_> with: ".
RET ! ;; Replaces "buffer" with "".
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.2.9200)
of 2013-02-24 on MACHINE
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Re: bug#13805: query-replace-regexp has conflicting interactive defaults |
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Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:58:09 +0200 |
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>> From `emacs -Q':
>> M-% . RET ! RET ;; To put a replacement into the history.
>> M-b ;; To place point before the word "buffer" in *scratch*.
>> C-M-% ;; Prompts "Query replace regexp (default . -> !): ".
>> RET ;; Prompts "Query replace regexp \_<buffer\.\_> with: ".
>> RET ! ;; Replaces "buffer" with "".
>
> The default logic was broken a week ago in revno:111803.
> This patch should restore the previous correct behavior:
This is fixed now, thanks for the bug report.
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