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Asked: 2026-05-25T14:12:38+00:00

the signature of the query-replace function in emacs looks like this : (query-replace FROM-STRING

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the signature of the query-replace function in emacs looks like this :

(query-replace FROM-STRING TO-STRING &optional DELIMITED START END)
My question is how can I specify the DELIMITED argument.

The docs indicate: ” Third arg DELIMITED (prefix arg if interactive), if non-nil, means replace
only matches surrounded by word boundaries.”

So I’m assuming it would be just like a numeric argument specified before a command (i.e. calling undo 8 times with M-8 C-x u) but haven’t figured it out. Can anyone help?

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  1. Editorial Team

    (query-replace "foo" "bar" "your demeter") or C-u M-%

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