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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 1997-03-22 03:51:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 1997-03-22 03:51:36 +0000 |
| commit | e47495c413e8feba1118d97d53b46d9699331fa4 (patch) | |
| tree | 3998d26d2dcf646a3b27a19d9374009111fae4ad | |
| parent | 3b8a1684830c5327a49a3b1a5d2f2bd5f38c3624 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-e47495c413e8feba1118d97d53b46d9699331fa4.tar.gz | |
(replace-string): Doc fix.
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/replace.el | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/replace.el b/lisp/replace.el index 0cb0f0486c5..24411f4739f 100644 --- a/lisp/replace.el +++ b/lisp/replace.el @@ -148,7 +148,9 @@ This function is usually the wrong thing to use in a Lisp program. What you probably want is a loop like this: (while (search-forward FROM-STRING nil t) (replace-match TO-STRING nil t)) -which will run faster and will not set the mark or print anything." +which will run faster and will not set the mark or print anything. +\(You may need a more complex loop if FROM-STRING can match the null string +and TO-STRING is also null.)" (interactive (query-replace-read-args "Replace string" nil)) (perform-replace from-string to-string nil nil delimited)) |