From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: {previous,next}-matching-history-element suggestion Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:12:25 -0600 (MDT) Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200206231812.g5NICPu24410@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <200206220724.aa22542@gremlin-relay.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024856107 28952 127.0.0.1 (23 Jun 2002 18:15:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17MBtD-0007Wr-00 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:15:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17MBtQ-0006L2-00; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17MBqc-00068D-00; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5NICSC28444; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:12:28 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g5NICPu24410; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:12:25 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: dann@ics.uci.edu In-Reply-To: <200206220724.aa22542@gremlin-relay.ics.uci.edu> (message from Dan Nicolaescu on Sat, 22 Jun 2002 07:24:23 -0700) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2231 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2231 It would be nice if {previous,next}-matching-history-element would behave in the same way as searching through history in readline (C-r and C-s for libreadline based applications). IE it would be nice if the search was incremental, with matches shown in the minibuffer as soon as they happen. That might be useful. Would you like to implement it?