GNU bug report logs - #20195
25.0.50; Let Dired commands such as `dired-do-search' (`A') use prefix arg

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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 03:57:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 20195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#20195: 25.0.50; Let Dired commands such as `dired-do-search' (`A') use prefix arg
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 22:19:17 +0100

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

>>> There is a problem with `dired-do-query-replace-regexp' where a prefix arg
>>> means replace word-delimited matches.
>>
>> So make it so that only a negative prefix arg means delimited.
>
> A negative prefix arg means backward replacement.

So I think the conclusion here was that we can't really do the suggested
change (which sounds pretty confusing to me, anyway), so I'm closing
this bug report.

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