Mercurial > emacs
changeset 38675:a7b1d283fe97
(perform-replace): Doc fix.
| author | Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:57:05 +0000 |
| parents | 8e0b0d76380a |
| children | ce568cc1138b |
| files | lisp/replace.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/replace.el Fri Aug 03 11:36:48 2001 +0000 +++ b/lisp/replace.el Fri Aug 03 11:57:05 2001 +0000 @@ -875,9 +875,13 @@ "Subroutine of `query-replace'. Its complexity handles interactive queries. Don't use this in your own program unless you want to query and set the mark just as `query-replace' does. Instead, write a simple loop like this: - (while (re-search-forward \"foo[ \t]+bar\" nil t) + + (while (re-search-forward \"foo[ \\t]+bar\" nil t) (replace-match \"foobar\" nil nil)) -which will run faster and probably do exactly what you want." + +which will run faster and probably do exactly what you want. Please +see the documentation of `replace-match' to find out how to simulate +`case-replace'." (or map (setq map query-replace-map)) (and query-flag minibuffer-auto-raise (raise-frame (window-frame (minibuffer-window))))