From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri@jurta.org>,
"'Lennart Borgman'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: 6980@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6980: Could goto-char please have its own history list?
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:41:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <89731AF8DD9241E7807DCEED9672DC4B@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878vr1rqpc.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
> > I can't see no reason its history should be mixed by something else.
> > (More than devel historic reasons ;-)
>
> It makes sense to share the same history that contains only numeric
> values between all commands that use `read-number', like
> e.g. `goto-line' and `goto-char' (with some changes), because
> non-numeric values (added to the history from other commands)
> are useless for such number-reading commands.
I don't have much of an opinion about the suggestion.
There are always pros & cons to making a history more or less specific.
But I'll point out that just because non-numeric histories are inappropriate for
numeric input does not mean that the same numeric history should be used for all
numeric inputs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-10 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-03 22:24 bug#6980: Could goto-char please have its own history list? Lennart Borgman
2011-08-10 19:50 ` Juri Linkov
2011-08-10 21:41 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-08-18 11:52 ` Juri Linkov
2011-08-18 12:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2021-02-17 8:51 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-18 20:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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