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[PATCH] Add newline and tab matching information to query-replace-regexp docstring.

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From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
To: Eric Skoglund <eric <at> pagefault.se>
Cc: 47981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47981: [PATCH] Add newline and tab matching information to query-replace-regexp docstring.
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:12:34 +0300

On 24/04/2021 05:25 +0000, Eric Skoglund wrote:

> "Filipp Gunbin" <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm> writes:
>
>> You may want to instead direct the reader to (info "(emacs) Inserting
>> Text"), and in particular, section about "quoted-insert".
>
> It feels a bit like leading users away from the specific information
> they would want and towards some more general informaton. AFAIK
> query-replace-regexp will only warn users in the minibuffer that "\n"
> and "\t" will not work as usual (and for matching a tab character you do
> not use quated-insert).
>
> // Eric Skoglund

This is just one of several cases where quoted-insert is needed, so I
don't see a reason why explain it here, and not explain in other places.
And if explain - it'd be better to provide more general explanation,
that is, refer to the info…

Filipp

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