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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 7567@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7567: Please add a history variable to read-regexp
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:51:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874oaprpzg.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DF06262AA19C4341B1B745D93DC6ABA0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:11:53 -0800")

> It's impossible to have it both ways, because the user's intention is a variable
> that cannot easily and always be taken into consideration.  IOW, there are some
> things the programmer can decide when writing the function call that reads input
> (you can use any history var you want, including new ones), but still you cannot
> always know what the user really needs/wants.

Does Icicles provide a way for the user to select and switch
history variables dynamically while the minibuffer is active?
This looks like a possible way to overcome this limitation.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-08  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-06  2:24 bug#7567: Please add a history variable to read-regexp Lennart Borgman
2010-12-06 22:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-06 22:57   ` Drew Adams
2010-12-06 23:00     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-06 23:11       ` Drew Adams
2010-12-06 23:23         ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-07  0:31           ` Drew Adams
2010-12-07  4:09           ` Drew Adams
2010-12-08  1:51         ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2010-12-08  3:03           ` Drew Adams
2010-12-06 23:03   ` Juri Linkov
2010-12-06 23:46     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-08  1:44       ` Juri Linkov
2010-12-07  3:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-08  1:57   ` Juri Linkov
2010-12-08  2:19     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-09  1:25       ` Juri Linkov
2010-12-08  3:10     ` Drew Adams
2010-12-09 14:31       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-09 16:14         ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10  3:09           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-09 14:28     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-09 17:43       ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10  3:06         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-10  3:46           ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10 20:10             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-08  3:32   ` Lennart Borgman
2012-09-20  8:30 ` bug#7567: Please add a history argument " Juri Linkov
2012-09-20 21:59   ` Juri Linkov

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