From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 380@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#380: previous-matching-history-element beef up
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 07:15:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sppcjl4.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4p82qule.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:27:59 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> And when one does hit that second M-r, it would be nice if the prompt
>> would show what the current default search string is. All it ever says is
>> "Previous element matching (regexp): " though indeed it remembers a
>> default all the time at least after first use.
>
> Indeed, it should probably use the " (default <foo>)" convention.
> But maybe that would be impractical because the prompt would then be
> too long.
It's a bit on the long side, but I think it helps usability a lot, so
I've made this change on the trunk now.
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2008-06-09 18:07 bug#380: previous-matching-history-element beef up jidanni
2008-06-09 19:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-13 5:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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