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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 13334@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13334: 24.3.50; enhancement request: `C-0 M-n' reverses order of defaults
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:47:19 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4003669-8489-436c-a59a-522364583449@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9ekcbsb.fsf@web.de>

> > The enhancement would be to let a zero prefix arg (e.g. `C-0') reverse
> > the list of available default values and then go to the first one
> > (previously the last one).  So you could cycle among the defaults in the
> > opposite order.
> 
> A slightly different approach would be to make it just go to the end of
> the history, without changing the order.  Then you could just use M-p to
> go backwards.  I guess that would not be hard to do (see
> `goto-history-element').

Agreed.  That is about as good.  (But again, it's not about the input
_history_.  It's about a set of possible default values.)

The only reason what I suggested might be considered slightly better
is that `C-p' is generally thought of as accessing the input history
(see the above confusion), not the defaults.

That's the case at the outset, but of course once you've used one of
`C-n' or `C-p' the other just reverses within the list (inputs or
defaults) that you started cycling, until you get back to the starting
point (origin, dividing the two lists).





  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-29 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-02  4:55 bug#13334: 24.3.50; enhancement request: `C-0 M-n' reverses order of defaults Drew Adams
2013-01-03  0:27 ` Juri Linkov
2013-01-03  0:49   ` Drew Adams
2013-01-03 23:51     ` Juri Linkov
2013-01-04  0:40       ` Drew Adams
2016-04-28 19:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-29 14:36   ` Drew Adams
2016-04-29 22:04 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-04-29 22:47   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-04-30 10:35     ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-04-30 15:22       ` Drew Adams

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