From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13333: 24.3.50; (emacs) `Minibuffer History' Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 16:57:41 +0300 Message-ID: <831qx6227e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871ue33z2w.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <871r6krzot.fsf@gnus.org> <87r1ehlr7y.fsf@gnus.org> <874k24rx7c.fsf@gnus.org> <87h763neqr.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25763"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 13333@debbugs.gnu.org To: Howard Melman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 06 15:59:09 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nmyU8-0006XI-JG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 May 2022 15:59:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57544 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nmyU7-0007qL-FF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 May 2022 09:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36238) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nmyU2-0007pt-0c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2022 09:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:55426) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nmyU1-0007Ps-OY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2022 09:59:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nmyU1-00005t-L9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2022 09:59:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:59:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13333 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 13333-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13333.165184548232736 (code B ref 13333); Fri, 06 May 2022 13:59:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13333) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 May 2022 13:58:02 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49323 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nmyT4-0008Vl-8L for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2022 09:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42756) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nmyT2-0008VR-3X for 13333@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2022 09:58:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45722) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nmySw-0007Kr-Ks; Fri, 06 May 2022 09:57:54 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=sjegDeHA3TGo0EUP1o2hWxYKvNt1+KH0A/sg1FpYC2Y=; b=oBBU3O/RgV9K 4toxSMTc4Ba0g/F2CoZx0hxG4wTMPVAzPP6hJaD2Z6lXCBQIunvpw/SI60/1Rqnp/2QjJIPKsI73Q U8c+fEUV3mb0eJooNI4QC3XWqvm4jkkpMN1cYSz2VP0i1/989i65EjEPTq6GxJCkVRZA6cW5ZzC8j IgA5PfS59YqrKVmYi3Pu7OKA1IHhahmsjzXbOLQ9qP06BYlvLxcdrxliBCw3xQeeYwjpg+NsCdcJ4 GA8zbd9grARPrh7U4I9WQ4Ro+aKLm0tJchtwFYXUhcUQwikH0Ekmupw+myIHwcNp5w6ssLpO4mfWW TCYG5Vz7nyAy4sMYSYCJjQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4214 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nmySw-0007VX-3i; Fri, 06 May 2022 09:57:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Howard Melman on Fri, 6 May 2022 09:40:59 -0400) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:231512 Archived-At: > Cc: 13333@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Howard Melman > Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 09:40:59 -0400 > > > Sure, makes sense. Could you come up with a patch for this? > > I'm sorry no, I don't build my own emacs, don't have the source, > and haven't signed copyright over. It should just be a couple > of @cindex calls in mini.texi > > @cindex future history > @cindex minibuffer suggestions That's not how good index entries are (or should be) added. One needs to think of subjects potential readers will have in mind when they are looking for the indexed text. With this in mind, I wonder who would think about "minibuffer suggestions" in conjunction with this material? I wouldn't, because "minibuffer suggestions" tells nothing to me about what it alludes to. "Suggestions" is not a good word to describe this feature. As for "future history", if we want it, it should _replace_ the existing index entry, because they both lead to almost the same text, and it is not useful to have several index entries that begin with the same text and lead to the same page of the manual.