Timeline for How to give user free rein to edit a buffer in the middle of lisp code?
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| Jan 5, 2020 at 2:07 | comment | added | Drew |
The Emacs doc that says that is too black-and-white. What it really wants to say (or should want to say) is that recursive editing can confuse users who don't know about it or don't expect it. And that's true. It's also true that its indication is not very noticeable - which is one reason for library rec-edit.el.
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| Jan 4, 2020 at 16:24 | vote | accept | Trevoke | ||
| Jan 4, 2020 at 16:24 | comment | added | Trevoke | I have done this and it definitely allows me to move forward. It's worth mentioning that the emacs documentation indicates that one should avoid using recursive editing, though: gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/… | |
| Dec 27, 2019 at 14:49 | comment | added | Barmar |
To see an example of recursive edit, start a query-replace, and use C-r when prompted to accept a replacement.
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| Dec 26, 2019 at 21:17 | history | edited | Drew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2019 at 21:10 | history | answered | Drew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |