(Spacemacs) pressing SPC to replace a match during query-replace does not work

Question

(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?

Answer 1

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.