From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 13333@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13333: 24.3.50; (emacs) `Minibuffer History'
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 16:41:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r6krzot.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ue33z2w.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:17:18 +0200")
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>> You can think of this as moving through the "future history" list.
>
> "future history" is a misnomer.
>
>> There is no logical connection between the set of default values
>
> "default values" is a misnomer.
>
> There can be only one default value that it used when the user enters
> empty input in the minibuffer. Other values are not "defaults".
>
> In most applications similar functionality is called "suggestions"
> where a drop-down list of suggestions is displayed while the user
> types a query into a text box. This feature is documented at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_suggest_drop-down_list
>
> Thus I propose to enhance the documentation by replacing the term
> DEFAULTS with (DEFAULT . SUGGESTIONS) where DEFAULT will retain
> its original meaning of the value returned for empty input
> and SUGGESTIONS is a list of suggestions available via `M-n'.
I think this sounds like a good idea. "Future history" is cute and all,
but it's not really helpful as a term -- especially when "suggestions"
is as clear as it is.
Anybody with any comments here?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-23 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-02 4:11 bug#13333: 24.3.50; (emacs) `Minibuffer History' Drew Adams
2013-01-02 4:15 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-03 0:17 ` Juri Linkov
2013-01-03 0:38 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-23 14:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-08-23 15:33 ` bug#13333: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-08-25 8:59 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-25 11:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-25 12:25 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-05-05 12:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-05 16:45 ` Howard Melman
2022-05-06 10:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-06 13:40 ` Howard Melman
2022-05-06 13:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-06 14:54 ` Howard Melman
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