Re: quick 'perform last replace again'

[David Kastrup]

Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Or use just M-% RET (which uses the defaults) and then . for
>> act-and-exit.
>
> That seems to also fail horribly. 
>
> M-% RET does not use what I used in my last search and replace.
> Quite what it does use, I don't know, but after a file open,
> an incremental search, and killing a buffer, it doesn't have
> any default. In fact, immediately after the M-%, there is no 
> default either, it just thinks that I want to search for ''. 
> I'm running GNU Emacs 21.4.1 and 21.2.1 on a variety of archs, 
> they all behave the same way.

If you insist on running outdated versions (I mean, even Debian stable
has switched to 22.1 quite some time ago), you should mention that in
your questions.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum