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From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
To: rswgnu@gmail.com, 29763@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29763: New Feature: Remove unneeded eval-expression in minibuffer-history
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:16:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8sjufeg.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+OMD9j+vJG1AdOGgx8B4SLXEqQsZrjL99C7JoxtK8LWnNZsiQ@mail.gmail.com>

Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org> writes:

> For as long as I can remember, I have wanted the minibuffer history to
> strip the eval-expression wrapper around expressions that I enter by
> invoking eval-expression with M-:.  I want this because the wrapper
> adds a lot of visual noise when searching for a specific expression and
> makes it much harder to edit the expression and get trailing parentheses
> right.
>
> So if I enter:
>
>   M-: (/ 1.0 9) RET
>
> then C-x ESC ESC shows me:
>
>   (eval-expression (quote (/ 1.0 9)) nil nil 127)
>
> but I want to see just the expression that I want to reuse or edit:
>
>   (/ 1.0 9)

As a user I can easily agree on this idea.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-22 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-18  4:13 bug#29763: New Feature: Remove unneeded eval-expression in minibuffer-history Robert Weiner
2017-12-18 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-18 23:04   ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-22 10:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-24 20:25       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-27  2:29         ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-22 12:16 ` Tomas Nordin [this message]
2017-12-22 12:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-12-22 14:21   ` Robert Weiner

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