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(Spacemacs)
M-% starts query-replace, and when a match is found, ? shows help, which indicates:
Type Space or ‘y’ to replace one match, Delete or ‘n’ to skip to next,
However, pressing Space simply inserts a space rather than replacing text (y still works). As a long time emacs user, this is a frustrating loss of functionality. Any suggestions on how it can be reinstituted?
It seems to be a recent Spacemacs change of the Emacs defaults. Either set dotspacemacs-use-SPC-as-y to t in your dotspacemacs/init
(defun dotspacemacs/init ()
(setq-default
... ;; all the other dospacemacs-* variables
;; Accept SPC as y for prompts if non nil. (default nil)
dotspacemacs-use-SPC-as-y t))
or do (define-key query-replace-map " " 'act) in your dotspacemacs/user-config to return to the classic behavior.
emacs -Q(no init file) - however that might be done with Spacemacs? If not, the bisect your init file to find the culprit.