On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
wrote:

> On Dez 17 2017, Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > + (defun minibuffer-history-edit-element (elt)
> > +   "Automatically simplify ELT if possible, e.g. removing
> eval-expression."
> > +   (or (and (consp elt) (eq (car elt) 'eval-expression)
> > +        ;; Remove eval-expression wrapper and leave just the expression.
> > +        (cadadr elt))
>
> That mishandles self-evaluating expressions, they are not wrapped with
> quote.
>

​You are correct.  This version resolves that issue and changes
repeat-complex-command to use eval-expression instead of
funcall-interactively to handle expressions rather than function
calls, including properly redoing:

   (quote emacs-version)

for example.

See attached.

Bob