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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.



  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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