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Re: `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move onto th


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move onto the next
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:54:54 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>    I think this is too weird trick to quit the query-replace operation
>    with M-> and resume it with tags-loop-continue M-,
>
> It is not a "trick", but a special case of a (to me) routine way to
> skip a series of occurrences known to be irrelevant by simply moving
> over them.  You can (and I routinely do), use not just M->, but _any_
> motion command for that purpose.  I have no idea what is "weird",
> unnatural or wrong about that.  It certainly is very useful.

This is useful but unnatural comparing to clean user interfaces I have seen
that have an option to skip to the next file, and additional buttons like
"Yes to All" and "No to All".

Currently in Emacs calling tags-loop-continue can be hardly described as
a clean way to resume query-replace.  And it also doesn't work in
single-file context which would be confusing.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




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