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Re: Interactive query-replace
From: |
Chunyang Xu |
Subject: |
Re: Interactive query-replace |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Feb 2017 12:47:26 +0800 |
User-agent: |
mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 26.0.50.2 |
(I replied a empty message a minute ago by accident, sorry about that)
Ole Laursen writes:
> Search and replace has three phases:
>
> - Enter search term
> - Enter replacement term
> - Confirmation
>
> Only confirmation is interactive in Emacs.
>
> The search phase could move the cursor and highlight all matches as
> you type, just like isearch. Then we can see what we're about to
> overwrite.
The search term is also interactive if you start your query-replace from
isearch via the same keys (that is M-% ('isearch-query-replace')). I use
this whenever I am not sure if my search pattern is correct.