Re: query-replace-regexp slow for evaluated lisp expressions

[Chris Moore]

"Aaron S. Hawley" <address@hidden> writes:

> Quoting Chris Moore <address@hidden>:
>
>> Or just replace it with \,\& for an even simpler test case.
>
> Damn right.

Or:
  \,&
makes it one character shorter, and gives lie to
replace-match-string-symbols's docstring.  It turns out that & doesn't
need to be preceeded by a backslash in order to type it using Lisp
syntax.

>> Does this patch fix the bug?
>
> Yes, it does.  I felt confident your patch would as soon as I looked
> at it.

I'm not confident about it.  It seems to be working well for me still,
but there's quite a lot of functionality available at the
query-replace prompt which I neither understand nor use.