From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: rms@gnu.org, burton@openprivacy.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: irepeat.el - repeat through history data FAST
Date: 25 Mar 2002 23:38:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5x4rj4ff2o.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87n0wxylld.fsf@gnu.org>
Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org> writes:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I am not sure irepeat should modify the minibuffer to replace
> > the standard completion.
> >
> > That is the only clean way to do it. That is the only way that avoids
> > the need to redefine individual commands that use the minibuffer.
> > That is the only way that works across the board.
>
> Hm, I actually thought that irepeat could be an alternative to or a
> replacement for completing-read. But often this does not make sense,
> for example I have used irepeat for finding files -- but since irepeat
> searches a list of strings for matches, the really existing files are
> not used for completion, the file-name-history is. In this case, how
> would you want to augment find-file with irepeat?
Have you tried ido.el available from www.cua.dk ?
It works like iswitchb.el for finding files.
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
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2002-03-23 16:13 ` irepeat.el - repeat through history data FAST Richard Stallman
2002-03-23 18:42 ` Kevin A. Burton
2002-03-25 0:19 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-25 10:42 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-03-25 22:38 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2002-03-26 0:55 ` Kevin A. Burton
2002-03-26 8:51 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-26 9:12 ` Kevin A. Burton
2002-03-28 7:26 ` Kevin A. Burton
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