From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 13333@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13333: 24.3.50; (emacs) `Minibuffer History'
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:17:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ue33z2w.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A64605487866469D901A64F9ACD0287D@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 1 Jan 2013 20:11:59 -0800")
> 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'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-03 0:17 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 [this message]
2013-01-03 0:38 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-23 14:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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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