Hi gnu/emacs,

first: thank you all for many years of providing a great editor.

last: sorry to say but my patience with emacs >23.1 is almost gone

PLEASE, PLEASE; PLEASE start putting new behaviors disabled.
The query-replace (default FROM -> TO) is a major disaster.
I do not want FROM -> TO suggestions and no matter what I try
and spend on googling this crap I cant turn it off.
Have you ever imagined to try out a very long FROM string
and then want to do another search/replace after???
For some yers I have actually been trying more and more to leave
emacs for good, it is closing in to the the swap.
The last really decent version was 23.1 something.
Every single new version simply just adds more and more strangeness
and more meaningless settings to figure out. I have work to do...
The faces is also simply just annouying. Now left with a too dark
buffer name of the inactive buffer when having two verticals one.
Cant hardly read what file is opened in the inactive before I click
in it to activate it. Have been emacs fan since 2004 but...

I have tried all setq on the:

query-replace-defaults
        query-replace-from-history-variable
query-replace-from-to-separator
        query-replace-help
query-replace-highlight
        query-replace-history
query-replace-interactive
        query-replace-lazy-highlight
query-replace-map
        query-replace-show-replacement
query-replace-skip-read-only
        query-replace-to-history-variable

but I simply cant get rid of the very annoying, totally unnecessary:
(default FROM -> TO). Some settings to nil brakes everything and 
nothing seems to turn off something no one really needs...

The UTF handling is still after many years a constant pain which destroys
some files having swedish characters in them, iso-8859-1 is not working
correctly anymore.

I use emacs:
privately (NT emacs on win10, a very old one but does the job)
professionally: every single day. Due to all different versions I often
nowadays faces emacs behaviors I do not ask for or wants. Old  versions
silently disappears from linux distos and leaveas me and many others
scratching our heads what emacs strangeness now has been introduced in
this newer version...

Reagrds 
Niclas Olsson, Sweden