GNU bug report logs - #53341
29.0.50; [PATCH] Lazy highlight/count when reading query-replace string, etc.

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From: ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
To: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
 the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: 29.0.50;
 [PATCH] Lazy highlight/count when reading query-replace string, etc.
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 07:13:20 +0000

>  one nice feature from that package, namely the highlighting and count of matches
> as one types a regexp or string to replace

Highlighting the typed regexp in the buffer can be useful for other commands too,
e.g. highlight-regexp

It could be implemented in a generic way, so other commands can also use this facility.

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