From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: 14405@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14405: 24.3.50; read-regexp-defaults-function
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 01:58:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehd7df52.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppwtw1zq.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed, 15 May 2013 02:51:20 +0300")
> There are pending enhancements to create a single option to define
> the same defaulting behavior for all regexp-reading commands
> and to group the existing defaults to separate functions
> that can be overridden by customizing that option.
But note that the option `read-regexp-defaults-function' has
limited usefulness. For example, in case when someone wants
`M-x man' to provide the default value not an entry near point
but the last element from the history, there is no way to do
this by customizing a common option because `man' uses the
specific variable `Man-topic-history'.
I see the only way to customize this by using `advice' like:
(advice-add 'Man-default-man-entry :override
(lambda () (car Man-topic-history)))
or even two default values (the last history and the original):
(advice-add 'Man-default-man-entry :filter-return
(lambda (r) (delq nil (list (car Man-topic-history) r))))
If advices are the preferable method of customization then the
design goal would be to add more functions returning default values
that users can customize using advices. For example, for `grep'
there is already `grep-tag-default' that could be customized like:
(advice-add 'grep-tag-default :override
(lambda () (car grep-regexp-history)))
as a better advice for
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15161592/make-emacs-rgrep-default-to-last-search-term-rather-than-word-at-point
Other commands require adding more functions for advice-based customization
like `occur-read-regexp-defaults' and `hi-lock-read-regexp-defaults'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-15 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-14 23:51 bug#14405: 24.3.50; read-regexp-defaults-function Juri Linkov
2013-05-15 22:58 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2013-05-18 23:28 ` Juri Linkov
[not found] ` <87mwjvwb1u.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
2013-12-21 2:39 ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-21 21:25 ` Juri Linkov
2013-12-21 22:28 ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-22 21:39 ` Juri Linkov
2013-12-23 2:38 ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-24 18:25 ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-25 20:56 ` Juri Linkov
2013-12-27 5:22 ` Jambunathan K
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