Re: improving query-replace and query-replace-regexp

[Miles Bader]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 12:15:00AM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
> But an empty argument to M-% can't be used to repeat query-replace
> because the first argument of query-replace makes sense even when
> it is empty.  It can be used to insert a replacement string between
> all characters, i.e. to change a string like "abcdef" into ";a;b;c;d;e;f;"
> by (query-replace "" ";").  This is an infrequent operation but
> still makes sense.

I don't think it's frequent enough to matter; the "empty string inserts
between characters" usage is a kludgey hack, not something you expect people
to know about.

> There should be a better solution like already proposed M-% M-% with
> the second M-% typed in the minibuffer.

That's a really kludgey hack too.  Minibuffer input is _not like_ isearch
input...

-Miles
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