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29.4; repunctuate-sentences ignores NO-QUERY
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Oh, wait a minute...on second thought, maybe "skip remaining prompts"
could be ambiguous. What about... "Interactively, press [etc] at any
prompt to replace all subsequent matches" ...or something?
Brian
On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 11:23 AM Brian Green <briandg <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This seems crystal clear to me. Yes, someone would have to rebind '!'
> in the query-replace-map to some absurdly long key sequence in order
> to mess up the text wrapping.
>
> Brian
>
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 10:09 AM Joseph Turner
> <joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in> wrote:
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> >
> > >> From: Brian Green <briandg <at> gmail.com>
> > >> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 01:29:11 -0700
> > >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, rms <at> gnu.org, 72704 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
> > >>
> > >> I submitted this "bug" report because I mis-interpreted the docstring,
> > >> and because I was approaching this command with a preconceived idea
> > >> about how it should work. I think Eli is right. I can't think of a
> > >> good reason why I would need to stipulate a certain behavior before
> > >> calling the command which I can already get at any point while the
> > >> command is running.
> > >
> > > The doc string indeed could use some improvements, at least in stating
> > > explicitly what happens in interactive usage and what only when called
> > > from Lisp.
> >
> > See patch. Is the text wrapping acceptable? It looks too long in
> > paragraphs.el but good in the *Help* buffer.
> >
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