Your message dated Thu, 23 Jan 2014 04:22:09 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Closing old emacs21 bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #150138, regarding emacs21: query-replace non-intuitive on overlapping matches to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: emacs21 Version: 21.2-1 Severity: normal When two matches overlap, query-replace (and query-replace-regexp) always treat only the first one. While this is the sane behaviour when the replacement is done, it is contrary to what would be expected when the replacement is NOT done. Let me explain by example: - The buffer contains a single line "tatat" - The user runs (query-replace "tat" "XX") - emacs then proposes to replace the first three characters of the line. User answers no (n or <delete> key). - the second match (the three last characters) is NOT proposed, it should. Note: If the user had run (query-replace "tat" "t") and instructed to do the replacement on first match, I can agree that the second match should not be proposed. (Actually, it might sometimes be what the user wants, so the best would be an option that by default is on "no overlapping matches on effectively done replace". But this would be more a wishlist bug, while the behaviour on "don't replace" IMHO breaks principle of least surprise) I'm open to discussion, if you think the current behaviour is the only sane one, I'd be interested to hear why. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux desktop 2.2.20 #1 Sun Dec 2 23:21:53 CET 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=fr_LU@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_LU@euro Versions of packages emacs21 depends on: ii dpkg 1.9.21 Package maintenance system for Deb ii emacsen-common 1.4.15 Common facilities for all emacsen. ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libjpeg62 6b-5 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liblockfile1 1.03 NFS-safe locking library, includes ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng2 1.0.12-3 PNG library - runtime ii libtiff3g 3.5.5-6 Tag Image File Format library ii xaw3dg 1.5-13 Xaw3d widget set ii xlibs 4.1.0-16 X Window System client libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-1 compression library - runtime
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--- Begin Message ---Hi! I'm closing this bug, since it affected emacs21, and the current version is 23. If you still encounter this problem, please feel free to re-open it and move it to the appropriate package, or ask me to do it. Solveig
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