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