Re: query-replace-interactive not documented

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Another option may be
> \`read-expression optionally followed by ' which gives us
> 
> \\footnote{\\label{fn:\`replace-count'}}
> 
> as well as
> 
> \\footnote{\\label{fn:\`(or replace-count)}}
> 
> \` has somewhat more of a "will be evaluated later" scent and it has
> the advantage that it is somewhat natural to match it up with ' in
> case we need to explicitly end the read expression.

Ok, here is the whole ugly thing: it certainly won't interfere with
programming since it does all the work in the interactive spec (see
C-x ESC ESC for the show.  BTW, can anybody tell me how the command
history manages to record the last two arguments unevaluated?  I can't
for the life of me figure out how this works), so certainly no
security risk.

You can use all the special symbols that are available in
query-replace-regexp-eval, too, like \& \#1 and so on.

If somebody has a good suggestion how one could get rid of
replace-requote in the command history, it would be nice to hear.
But I really think that \`"\\3"' should deliver a _verbatim_ \3, or
we could have written \`\3' in the first place.

Docstring missing as to yet.

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