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Re: Emacs manual nodes about text replacement


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Emacs manual nodes about text replacement
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:27:49 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> The presentation and order of the manual nodes describing text replacement 
> could
> be improved. I don't have a concrete proposal, but here are some problems I 
> see.
>
> The main node, Replace, starts by saying that you don't use global
> search-and-replace that much in Emacs. That's true in the batch 
> (unconditional)
> sense, but query-replacement is commonly used. This could be made clearer:
> Unconditional global replacement is not needed that often. Most of the time 
> you
> use conditional, interactive replacement - called query-replacement.

I can't find none of the text that you are referring to.  What version do
you use?  Recently Yidong rewrote many parts of the documentation, so
please refer to a newer version.

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




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