Subject: Re: bug#54173: 28.0.91; Training wheels for query-replace

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:44:32 +0200

>> If you think someone might want to display reminders for some rarely used
>> keys, then a variable with a help string would be fine.
>
> I think the likelihood of a user customising such a string is pretty
> much nil -- if they're able to formulate a longer help string here, then
> they'll remember the options they typed out.

I agree that probability tends to zero.

OTOH, there is already such a const:

  (defconst query-replace-help "...")

that is used in:

  (substitute-command-keys query-replace-help)

So the same way a new const makes sense:

  (defconst query-replace-prompt-help "(\\<query-replace-map>\\[help] for help) ")

to be used like this:

  (substitute-command-keys query-replace-prompt-help)

that will help Augusto to solve this problem.