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Re: Advanced query-replace-regexp in code


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: Advanced query-replace-regexp in code
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 21:57:09 -0400
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In article <mailman.8166.1243709727.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgard) wrote:

> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > Regardless of whether they should or shouldn't use it, it still seems
> > strange that the function interprets the second argument differently
> > depending on whether it's use interactively or programmatically.
> 
> It doesn't; the magic is in the interactive form.

Which seems like a silly place to put it, when it could just as easily 
be in the main body of the function.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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