Subject: bug#52751: 27.1; Go back to editing the from part in query replace

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:14:21 -0500

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  > If you have two input fields which you can edit before submitting then the whole arrow
  > thing is obsolete, because you don't have a single field where you have to insert
  > a marker to separate the from/to inputs.

"Fields", in Emacs, usually mean parts of a buffer.
A single minibuffer which contains the from and to strings
separated by an arrow can be thought of as "two fields".
We could use TAB to move point from one field to the other.

That might be a good choice.

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