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bug#45273: 27.1: Cannot display options help text for query-replace
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#45273: 27.1: Cannot display options help text for query-replace |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 21:15:33 +0200 |
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:43:07 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Mark Harig via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> According to the Emacs manual at (emacs)Query Replace:
>
> ----
> ‘C-h’
> ‘?’
> ‘<F1>’
> to display a message summarizing these options. Then you must type
> another character to specify what to do with this occurrence.
This citation is incomplete: you've taken one item from a long list of
characters one can type, and that list begins with this text:
The characters you can type when you are shown a match for the string
or regexp are:
So the Help character will work if you type it after you already
provided the string to replace and its replacement, and Emacs shows
you the first match -- which is when this help is relevant. You don't
need this help earlier because none of those characters can be used
before the first match is found.
> 2. The DEFCONST `query-replace-help' describes 'E' (upper-case
> e) as:
>
> ----
> E to edit the replacement string.
> ----
>
> But the Emacs manual at (emacs)Query Replace describes 'e'
> (lower-case e) as:
>
> ----
> `e'
> to edit the replacement string in the minibuffer. When you exit
> the minibuffer by typing <RET>, the minibuffer contents replace the
> current occurrence of the pattern. They also become the new
> replacement string for any further occurrences.
I added 'E' to the text in the manual on the emacs-27 branch.
With that, I'm closing this bug report. Thanks.