From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: replace history Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:47:38 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87ve6a1q7p.fsf@jurta.org> References: <200712262348.lBQNmdPO013976@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <87ejd7ucj3.fsf@jurta.org> <87ejcyaavn.fsf@jurta.org> <7dbe73ed0801031415q3c8b1f76of93200dca383d0d1@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199400506 1998 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2008 22:48:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 22:48:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Mathias Dahl To: "Mathias Dahl" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 23:48:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JAYrg-0006ZD-TM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:48:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAYrK-0002qs-N2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:48:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAYrE-0002pz-IH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:48:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAYrD-0002oz-5x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:48:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAYrD-0002ow-0Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:48:11 -0500 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JAYrC-00058h-DJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:48:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JAYr1-000Nyx-7P; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:48:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0801031415q3c8b1f76of93200dca383d0d1@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Thu, 3 Jan 2008 23:15:59 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 5389b9e13478507b5d7b23e4ed053241 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1976 [Dec 29 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Info: {TO: local part of email appears in body} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 28 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17296 Archived-At: >> > I think Dan's suggested way of operation would be really neat, but I >> > don't care much what key that activates this feature. Someone >> > mentioned using a prefix argument and that it was already taken. How >> > about differentiate between prefix arguments (negative versus positive >> > etc), as some commands do? >> >> Such as `C-u -2 M-%' to get the penultimate replacement pair? >> This would be not very convenient when you don't remember your >> replacement history, so you need to try different prefix arguments >> before finding the necessary one. > > No no, not to select a certain history item. To control the behavior of M-p > and M-n in the command. Prefix arguments (both positive and negative) of M-p and M-n are too useful to take them for something else. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/