GNU bug report logs - #41692
26.3; Enhancement request, `query-replace': let user use text at point as default

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

Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 18:36:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 28.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #36 received at 41692 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: "41692 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <41692 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: bug#41692: 26.3; Enhancement request,
 `query-replace': let user use text at point as default
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:55:42 +0000

> > Maybe either another function-valued variable
> > (to be called) or a sexp-valued variable (to be
> > evalled).
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.  Now a new function
> query-replace-read-from-suggestions is added that
> is easy to redefine like read-regexp-suggestions.

I'll take your word for it, I guess.

The doc (and behavior) of `read-regexp-suggestions'
is a convoluted nightmare, IMHO.  Hope that's not
the case for your proposal for query-replace.
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