From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: History for query replace pairs
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:16:39 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <73ac8eba-f16d-4bbf-a32e-a237be15ab73@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738aq308u.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
FWIW, it sounds to me like you are complicating things for no
real gain. When you are all done fiddling with this, count
the keystrokes needed for a user to take advantage of your
new dream behavior...
Keep it simple.
And just what is the problem that this is trying to solve?
Are you trying to find a way to give users easy access to
previous replacement pairs? We already have that, no?
If you want to reuse a previous old/new replacement pair,
just use `C-x ESC ESC'. You have `M-p' or `M-r' to choose
which previous pair to reuse. And you can edit such a choice.
What's the problem?
---
With a reasonable extension to allow completion on demand
against the minibuffer history (with Icicles you can use `M-o'
to do that, for example), you could also complete-match against
past inputs. (And yes, it should be on-demand - past inputs
as completion candidates should not just be mixed in with the
current set of completion candidates.)
It might be better to spend a little time to provide such a
past-inputs completion feature than to monkey around adding
keys to maneuver among past input pairs they way you seem to
be doing. Just a suggestion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-14 20:16 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
2014-10-14 20:16 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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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