* bug#16837: 24.3.50; Allow a HISTORY arg for `read-file-name', `read-file-name-default'
@ 2014-02-21 18:34 Drew Adams
2016-04-29 17:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2014-02-21 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 16837
An enhancement request -
Please consider allowing an optional HISTORY arg to these functions
(with the default value being of course `file-name-history').
It can happen that someone wants the behavior of one of these functions,
but with a different file-name history, such as `shell-command-history'.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2014-02-11 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 116410 lekktu@gmail.com-20140211204823-l9l2s6tktfitq266
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/binary --enable-checking=yes,glyphs
'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib
CPPFLAGS=-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include'
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* bug#16837: 24.3.50; Allow a HISTORY arg for `read-file-name', `read-file-name-default'
2014-02-21 18:34 bug#16837: 24.3.50; Allow a HISTORY arg for `read-file-name', `read-file-name-default' Drew Adams
@ 2016-04-29 17:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-30 4:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2016-04-29 17:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 16837
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Please consider allowing an optional HISTORY arg to these functions
> (with the default value being of course `file-name-history').
>
> It can happen that someone wants the behavior of one of these functions,
> but with a different file-name history, such as `shell-command-history'.
Yes, that seems potentially useful. It currently uses the hard-coded
`file-name-history' history.
Anybody have any objections to adding this? I see one possible
complication -- it'll be Yet Another Optional Parameter that has to be
passed on to `read-file-name-function', and if somebody has defined that
to take fewer parameters, it'll bomb...
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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* bug#16837: 24.3.50; Allow a HISTORY arg for `read-file-name', `read-file-name-default'
2016-04-29 17:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2021-05-30 4:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2021-05-30 4:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 16837
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Yes, that seems potentially useful. It currently uses the hard-coded
> `file-name-history' history.
>
> Anybody have any objections to adding this? I see one possible
> complication -- it'll be Yet Another Optional Parameter that has to be
> passed on to `read-file-name-function', and if somebody has defined that
> to take fewer parameters, it'll bomb...
And thinking about this for five more years, I think that's a pretty
serious objection -- the argument list is part of the API here, so we
can't really just add another parameter here.
So people that want a different history variable here will have to make
their own `read-file-name-function' function.
Closing.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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