GNU bug report logs - #10885
Replace expressions: enhance functionality when searching in filled paragraphs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: linuxfever <linuxfever <at> yahoo.gr>

Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:31:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 10885 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: linuxfever <linuxfever <at> yahoo.gr>
Cc: 10885 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10885: Replace expressions: enhance functionality when
	searching in filled paragraphs
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:17:09 +0100

> In a nutshell, I believe enhancing the functionality of the replacement
> functions to accommodate for expressions split in two lines, would make
> their usability so much easier.

Adding a "word-type mode" to query-replace (analogous of the word-type
mode of Isearch) would do what you want, and would be a good feature,
IMO.

That is: add an option to query-replace whereby the matches are found
using a word-type search, instead of the (default) normal search.

-- 
Dani Moncayo
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