From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#64656: 29.0.91; Doc of minibuffer histories and completing-read - automatic addition of completions to DEFAULT list Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:28:10 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86cywcluhe.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <83y1jga0nr.fsf@gnu.org> <83o7kb9a40.fsf@gnu.org> <86bkg84de3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <86jzrhlrub.fsf_-_@mail.linkov.net> <86h6m9v1sx.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <861qdc1s3s.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19899"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , "64656@debbugs.gnu.org" <64656@debbugs.gnu.org> To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 14 08:44:01 2023 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 1r2o5Z-00053R-Pd for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:44:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r2o51-0007dK-Fo; Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:43:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r2o4x-0007PL-Hn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:43:25 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r2o4u-0003nx-G2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:43:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1r2o5a-0003rb-4D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:44:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 07:44:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 64656 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 64656-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B64656.169994780014759 (code B ref 64656); Tue, 14 Nov 2023 07:44:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 64656) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Nov 2023 07:43:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59973 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1r2o4u-0003py-52 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:43:20 -0500 Original-Received: from relay2-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:dc4:8::222]:33375) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1r2o4s-0003pi-Gt for 64656@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6B50540009; Tue, 14 Nov 2023 07:42:28 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:14:15 +0000") X-GND-Sasl: juri@linkov.net 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:274298 Archived-At: >> The problem is that it's too late to identify the >> existing callers and to add an explicit list of defaults to them. > > Or perhaps you mean existing `completing-read' > calls in the vanilla Emacs code, not user code? > > If so, I'd say don't worry about it. We can't help but worry because we can't break existing `completing-read' calls. > Don't second-guess what the `M-n' queue should be for > existing `completing-read' calls. Or if you > really want to, go ahead, investigate them one > by one. That's the problem: it's a too big task to check all existing `completing-read' calls to add explicit DEFAULTS.