Emacs LISP & macros

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:15:27 +0900
Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:

> IIRC, "Query replace:" is the prompt for emacs's query-replace
> function, NOT query-replace-regexp, which is NOT the same.  The former
> will query/replace an exact string, while the latter will
> query/replace a regular expression.  I also disagree that C-M means
> meta, as only M (as in M-x) should refer to meta.  I suspect that the
> C-M key binding is one that just doesn't make sense on PC keyboards,
> but I don't know that for a fact.  
> 
> If you don't have query-replace-regex mapped to another key sequence
> that will work for you, you can execute it with emacs's
> "execute-extened-command" function, usually bound to M-x by default:
> 
>   M-x query-replace-regexp
>  
> This will indeed respond with the prompt "Query replace regexp:"
I think that Bill had his sequence wrong. He said C-M-% was the key
binding for query-replace-regexp. However M-C-% is the correct default
keybinding for query-replace-regexp. Which means:
tap the meta (ESC) key, brings up "ESC -" in the minibuffer.
Then type "Ctrl-Shift-%". "Query replace regexp:" will now be displayed
in the minibuffer. (This is assuming out of the box GNU Emacs
keybindings). 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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