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bug#43569: 28.0.50; Menu "Continue Tags Search" signals an error


From: Drew Adams
Subject: bug#43569: 28.0.50; Menu "Continue Tags Search" signals an error
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:51:11 -0700 (PDT)

> > > > I call the menu item for [tags-repl-continue]
> > > > "Continue Search/Replace", with :help "Continue last
> > > > tags search or replace operation".
> > > >
> > > > It's incorrect to say that it continues the last tags
> > > > replace operation.  It continues the last tags search
> > > > or replace operation.  If the last tags operation was
> > > > `tags-search' and not `tags-query-replace', then it
> > > > continues the last search, not the last replace.
> > >
> > > That is factually correct, but I think the current menus
> > > confusing to newbies than your proposal are less.
> >
> > I won't argue about it, but I think that as soon as a
> > user tries tags-searching and then tries to go back to
> > continue a tags query-replace, s?he will be mightily
> > surprised.
> 
> Like I said: factually correct, but there's no reason
> for the user to do something like that, except by accident.

FWIW (so please don't claim I'm "insisting" or arguing) -

Like I said:

   That's exactly how I discovered this.

I didn't do it by accident.  Someone can easily do
both tags searching and tags query-replacing, moving
from one to the other.

Clearest (at least for menu purposes) would for there
to be two separate continue commands - continue last
search and continue last query-replace.





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