From 87532fbe3c6cc59c7fccf7af6d1d5a2f654598e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 03:51:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (replace-string): Doc fix. --- lisp/replace.el | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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)) -- 2.39.2