GNU bug report logs - #35354
26.2; `dired-do-query-replace-regexp': How to replace only word-delimited matches?

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 03:35:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 26.2

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 35354 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 35354 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35354: 26.2; `dired-do-query-replace-regexp': How to replace
 only word-delimited matches?
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:08:28 +0300

On 21.04.2019 6:20, Drew Adams wrote:
> `dired-do-query-replace-regexp' has taken the key binding of
> `dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace'.  I was expecting that it would do
> all that the latter does plus more.

I don't really understand how we can both expect FROM to be a regexp and 
have a separate argument DELIMITED.

> How does a user use `dired-do-query-replace-regexp' to replace only
> word-delimited matches?

How about \<input\>?
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