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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-01-23 08:53:35 +0200 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-01-23 08:53:35 +0200 |
commit | 035bd8159fe5bcea15eacc8a23ab54f4bc3b6f17 (patch) | |
tree | 2ee1b38b8b018cc18a0f7476ad72a2402619901e /etc | |
parent | 0275e7ba6ee76f56ab199f006d978e37e3715610 (diff) | |
download | emacs-035bd8159fe5bcea15eacc8a23ab54f4bc3b6f17.tar.gz |
Update documentation for Dired search and replace
* doc/emacs/dired.texi (Operating on Files): Update descriptions
of 'A' and 'Q' now bound to 'dired-do-find-regexp' and
'dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace'.
* etc/NEWS: Mention xref-related changes in Dired.
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@@ -1014,6 +1014,10 @@ As a result of this, the following commands are now obsolete: replacements yet. +++ +*** Variants of `tags-search' and `tags-query-replace' in Dired were also +replaced by xref-style commands, see the "Dired" section below. + ++++ *** New variables `find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for @@ -1153,6 +1157,18 @@ compress many marked files into a single named archive. The compression command is determined from the new `dired-compress-files-alist' variable. ++++ +*** New user interface for the `A' and `Q' commands. +These keys, now bound to `dired-do-find-regexp' and +`dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace', work similarly to +`xref-find-apropos' and `xref-query-replace': they present the matches +in the `*xref*' buffer and let you move through the matches. No need +to use `tags-loop-continue' to resume the search or replace loop. The +previous commands, `dired-do-search' and +`dired-do-query-replace-regexp', are still available, but not bound to +keys; rebind `A' and `Q' to invoke them if you want the old behavior +back. We intend to obsolete the old commands in a future release. + ** Tabulated List Mode +++ |