From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#38317: Buffer-local variables don't work as history for read-from-minibuffer Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:22:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87eey0lxxm.fsf@gmail.com> <87v9rcqbls.fsf@gnus.org> <5a0c68d0-4d25-bf8d-fbe8-f106b0f92210@gmx.at> <875zjareo1.fsf@gnus.org> <874kyu72kl.fsf@gmail.com> <87wobq5gs0.fsf@gmail.com> <87o8wyl2wa.fsf@gmail.com> <87k17lfscs.fsf@gnus.org> <87h82pw3vr.fsf@gmail.com> <83y2w1p1f7.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0ddvxnk.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="157347"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 38317@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org To: Federico Tedin Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 29 06:23:49 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iaYku-000enp-OZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2019 06:23:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54986 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iaYkt-0006TT-Jr for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:23:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36417) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iaYkF-0006S9-NN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iaYkB-00035A-LL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iaYkB-00034W-Hb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:23:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iaYkA-0005gZ-Ct for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:23:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 05:23:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 38317 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 38317-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B38317.157500495621820 (code B ref 38317); Fri, 29 Nov 2019 05:23:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 38317) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Nov 2019 05:22:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59309 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iaYjk-0005fs-C9 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:22:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54424) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iaYjh-0005fd-KN for 38317@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:22:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55621) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iaYjY-000163-Ez; Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:22:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iaYjV-000433-3V; Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:22:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87d0ddvxnk.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Federico Tedin on Wed, 27 Nov 2019 22:04:31 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:172632 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > You're right, I was looking at the Emacs manual instead of the Elisp > manual (the sections have the same title). I can see that the Elisp manual is > more specific about the history list variable. I could mention the > possibility of using a buffer-local variable there. Since the two sections have the same name, would it be helpful to give the Emacs Manual section a cross reference to the Elisp Manual section? Perhaps, "See also the section of the same name, @xref{...}." -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)