Re: general perform-replace REPLACEMENTS arg for regexpquery-replacement?

[Juri Linkov]

>> The only place currently preventing this is prin1-to-string that turns
>> a list into a string.  We could change it to keep the list intact.
>
> Yes, but then you lose the ability to get the current behavior: replace by the
> string, "(\"zzz\" \"aaa\")".

When you want to replace by the string, you don't need `\,'.

> IMO, two different syntaxes are needed to separate the two different user
> intentions: a sexp that evals to a string "(...)" and a sexp that evals to a
> list of strings to pass to `perform-replace'.

There two syntaxes naturally are `\,(' and `\,'('.

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Juri Linkov
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