Re: query-replace-interactive not documented

[David Kastrup]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> > Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
> >> > To use a single variable inside a replacement string, one can use
> >> > a no-op function like `+':
> >> 
> >> Or even progn.
> >
> > Or or, which is even shorter...
> 
> Which is shorter only for non-numeric variables.
> But for numeric variables + is the shortest one.
> 
> But there is still one too long name that the user should type:
> `replace-count'.  WIBN to have aliases for this name?
> At least, `c' and `i' would make sense.
> 
> So, instead of:
> 
> C-M-% \\footnote{ RET \&\\label{fn:\,(+ replace-count)} RET
> 
> to type:
> 
> C-M-% \\footnote{ RET \&\\label{fn:\,(+ c)} RET

I'd rather say that since we already have special symbols
\1 \2 \3 \#1 \#2 \#3, that the most natural choice would probably be
just \# for the match number.  Then we'd have

\\label{fn:\,\# } RET

And it would probably make sense to define \# as a string component
on its own, too, so that we can just write
\\label{fn:\#} RET
if we want to.

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