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

[Kai Grossjohann]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:20:35PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> What do you think of making M-% and C-M-% b behave similar to C-s and
>> C-u C-s?  This is, typing it a second time continues a previous
>> query-and-replace action.  This would save a lot of time.
>
> It's not necessary -- as those commands use normal minibuffer input, you can
> just use the normal minibuffer history mechanism (M-p, etc).

Well, the "from" and "to" prompts use the same history, so you have
to be quite careful about the number of times you hit M-p.

One idea would be to have them use separate histories.

But I just use C-x ESC ESC to repeat query-replace.

Kai