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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: History for query replace pairs
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:15:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141014201512.GB6430@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738aq308u.fsf@mail.jurta.org>

Hello, Juri.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:44:01PM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > How about, simply, TAB to switch to the other field?  S-TAB doesn't exist
> > on a tty.

> I guess we could use the same key M-TAB or M-C-i as is used
> to switch to the other field in the Customization UI on a tty.

> > This would create a slight inconsistency with C-s, where TAB
> > is a self-inserting character.

> C-s uses M-TAB or M-C-i as well for completion on a tty.

Yes.  M-TAB does exist on ttys.

> >> But the main question in both cases which key to use to browse
> >> FROM-TO pairs from the minibuffer's history?  It seems both M-p and
> >> <up> should still get either FROM or TO from the history one by one,
> >> so it would be easy to reuse a previous TO for the FROM part (to
> >> invert replacements).  What about <M-up>?

> > M-up doesn't exist on a tty either.

> Then what about `<ESC> <up>'?

Bad.  It's far too cumbersome.  It's two distinct keystrokes with the two
keys being at opposite sides of the keyboard, so far apart that they
cannot even be seen at the same time.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-14 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-08 20:20 History for query replace pairs Tom
2014-08-08 20:28 ` Drew Adams
2014-08-08 23:38 ` Juri Linkov
2014-08-09  5:35   ` Herring, Davis
2014-08-10  1:18   ` Josh
2014-08-10  5:59     ` Tom
2014-08-11 18:34       ` Tom
2014-10-04 21:45         ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-04 23:36           ` Juri Linkov
2014-10-05  1:52             ` Yuri Khan
2014-10-05 21:54               ` Juri Linkov
2014-10-05  7:09             ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-05  1:52           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-05  5:59           ` Tom
2014-10-06  0:46             ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-06 20:17               ` Tom
2014-10-06 22:35               ` Juri Linkov
2014-10-07 22:11                 ` Juri Linkov
2014-10-14 17:14                   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-14 19:02                     ` Juri Linkov
2014-10-14 19:13                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-10-14 19:44                         ` Juri Linkov
2014-10-14 20:15                           ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2014-10-14 20:16                           ` Drew Adams
2014-10-14 20:28                             ` Juri Linkov
2014-10-14 21:19                               ` Drew Adams
2014-10-14 20:05                         ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-14 20:09                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-10-14 20:23                             ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-21 18:23                       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-21 22:53                         ` Juri Linkov
2014-10-22 12:58                           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-23  9:06                             ` Artur Malabarba
2014-10-25 20:57                               ` Juri Linkov
2014-10-26  1:12                                 ` Artur Malabarba
2014-10-26  2:31                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-26  6:58                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-25 20:52                             ` Juri Linkov
2014-10-26  2:29                               ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-26 23:27                                 ` Juri Linkov
2014-11-03 13:30                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-03 23:46                                 ` Juri Linkov
2014-11-04  0:59                                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-04 23:09                                     ` Juri Linkov
2014-11-05  1:55                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-05 23:20                                         ` Juri Linkov
2014-11-06  2:35                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-07 23:34                                             ` Juri Linkov
2014-11-08  0:59                                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-08  8:46                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-08 10:29                                                   ` Juri Linkov
2014-11-08 11:24                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-08 15:28                                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-08 17:29                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-08 22:52                                                         ` Juri Linkov
2014-11-09  2:01                                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-09 16:15                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-09 17:11                                                               ` Juri Linkov
2014-11-09 22:14                                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-09 23:12                                                                   ` Juri Linkov
2014-11-09 22:10                                                               ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-09  2:29                                                           ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-09 17:15                                                             ` Juri Linkov
2014-11-08 22:51                                                       ` Juri Linkov
2014-11-09 17:29                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-08 10:15                                                 ` Juri Linkov
2014-11-08  8:25                                               ` Eli Zaretskii

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