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* etc/NEWS: Clarify the 'xref-find-references-and-replace' entry.

* doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (Identifier Search): Document
'xref-find-references-and-replace'.
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Eli Zaretskii 2022-01-14 09:41:24 +02:00
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@ -2321,6 +2321,10 @@ Find all the references for the identifier at point.
Interactively replace @var{regexp} with @var{replacement} in the names
of all the identifiers shown in the @file{*xref*} buffer.
@item M-x xref-find-references-and-replace @key{RET} @var{from} @key{RET} @var{to} @key{RET}
Interactively rename all instances of the identifier @var{from} to the
new name @var{to}.
@item M-x tags-search @key{RET} @var{regexp} @key{RET}
Search for @var{regexp} through the files in the selected tags
table.
@ -2366,6 +2370,11 @@ files where these identifiers are referenced. This is useful when you
rename your identifiers as part of refactoring. This command should
be invoked in the @file{*xref*} buffer generated by @kbd{M-?}.
@findex xref-find-references-and-replace
@kbd{M-x xref-find-references-and-replace} works similarly to
@code{xref-query-replace-in-results}, but is more convenient when you
want to rename a single identifier specified by its name @var{from}.
@findex tags-search
@kbd{M-x tags-search} reads a regexp using the minibuffer, then
searches for matches in all the files in the selected tags table, one

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@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ It is bound to 'C-M-,' and jumps to the location where 'xref-go-back'
called without prefix argument, to make the most common case faster:
replacing entire matches.
*** New command 'xref-find-references-and-replace'.
*** New command 'xref-find-references-and-replace' to rename one identifier.
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