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Re: recording-elisp.el - try recording commands as elisp code


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: recording-elisp.el - try recording commands as elisp code
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:28:18 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>     1. convert it to the call to `query-replace', e.g.
>
> That is the only reasonable thing to do with M-%.
>
>     2. convert M-% to the call to `replace-string';
>
> That's just no good.  If the user wanted to replace with no queries he
> would have run `replace-string' himself.

I always use `M-% from RET to RET !' to replace all matches with
no queries because this is very convenient user interface.  So Lisp
recording should take care of this and convert the key `!' to the loop
with search-forward and replace-match.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




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