GNU bug report logs - #24977
25.1; search and query-replace in Dired

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 01:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
To: 24977 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, tino.calancha <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#24977: 25.1; search and query-replace in Dired
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 23:07:24 +0900

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> You unwisely changed `A' and `Q' in Dired to two completely different
> commands. You even claimed that you intend to
> deprecate the "old" commands.
I sometimes need to use `Q' command.  I prefer
`dired-do-query-replace-regexp', because it acepts Emacs regexp syntaxis.

It's confusing that '% g' handles Emacs regexp but `Q' or `A' use
a different one: IMO, it's more natural if we bind to keys those
commands accepting the native regexp syntaxis.
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