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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
	wl@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org,
	Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: improving query-replace and query-replace-regexp
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:17:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040602001751.GA27034@fencepost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv65aa7rki.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:10:59PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The standard emacs syntax for prompt defaults seems to be "(default
> > ...)"; is there any reason to use some different syntax here?  [I know,
> > things are not exactly consistent as it is, but let's not make it worse.]
> 
> I've seen both (default foo) and [foo] used and I personally prefer the
> second form because it is shorter.

I'm sure you do, but emacs should present a consistent face to its users
unless there's a good reason not to.  It seems pretty clear that the
"(default ...)" form is canonical as that's what the most fundamental emacs
commands use.

Please change it.

Thanks,

-Miles
-- 
Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here, 
 beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-02  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-28 16:20 improving query-replace and query-replace-regexp Werner LEMBERG
2004-05-28 22:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-29 17:02   ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-29 17:05     ` Werner LEMBERG
2004-05-29 17:50       ` Miles Bader
2004-05-29 20:45         ` Werner LEMBERG
2004-05-29 21:15     ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-29 21:31       ` Miles Bader
2004-05-30 20:59         ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-01 23:48           ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]             ` < 8765aadbgb.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
2004-06-02  0:04             ` Miles Bader
2004-06-02  0:10               ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-02  0:17                 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-06-02 17:37                 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-02 17:37               ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-02  0:56             ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-02  1:48               ` Miles Bader
2004-06-02  1:58                 ` minibuffer-eldef (was: improving query-replace and query-replace-regexp) Stefan Monnier
2004-06-02  2:15                   ` minibuffer-eldef Miles Bader
2004-06-02  3:25                     ` minibuffer-eldef Stefan Monnier
2004-06-02  3:42                       ` minibuffer-eldef Miles Bader
2004-06-02  7:01                         ` minibuffer-eldef David Kastrup
2004-06-02  7:15                           ` minibuffer-eldef Miles Bader
2004-06-02 22:55                             ` minibuffer-eldef Richard Stallman
2004-06-03  7:19                               ` minibuffer-eldef David Kastrup
2004-06-03  7:34                                 ` minibuffer-eldef Miles Bader
2004-06-03  8:13                                   ` minibuffer-eldef David Kastrup
2004-06-03 22:40                                     ` minibuffer-eldef Miles Bader
2004-06-03  7:39                                 ` minibuffer-eldef Stephan Stahl
2004-06-03  8:06                                   ` minibuffer-eldef David Kastrup
2004-06-03  8:43                                     ` minibuffer-eldef Stephan Stahl
2004-06-03 12:21                                 ` minibuffer-eldef Stefan Monnier
2004-06-03 12:35                                   ` minibuffer-eldef David Kastrup
2004-06-04  1:35                                 ` minibuffer-eldef Juri Linkov
2004-06-02  8:04                       ` minibuffer-eldef Kim F. Storm
2004-06-02  9:50                         ` minibuffer-eldef Miles Bader
2004-06-02  8:32                       ` minibuffer-eldef Werner LEMBERG
2004-06-02 17:37                 ` improving query-replace and query-replace-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-06-02 17:52                   ` David Kastrup
2004-06-03  1:28                   ` Miles Bader
2004-06-03  2:29                     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-03  4:52                       ` Miles Bader
2004-06-03  7:22                     ` David Kastrup
2004-06-04  2:03                       ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-07  4:28                         ` Miles Bader
2004-06-02  0:16         ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-06-02  0:32           ` Miles Bader
2004-06-03 18:35             ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-06-03 18:57               ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-03 22:20                 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-04 17:33                   ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-02  0:59           ` Juri Linkov
2004-07-03  9:45   ` Juri Linkov
2004-07-04 17:03     ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-05 19:43       ` David Kastrup
2004-05-29 10:57 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-29 11:58   ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-29 12:03     ` Miles Bader
2004-05-30 14:30       ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-29 12:21     ` Werner LEMBERG
2004-05-29 15:51 ` Stefan Daschek

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