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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UP and DOWN with multi-line minibuffer history
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 05:39:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d1u94s23.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1u9vqni.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 14 Dec 2015 02:07:45 +0200)

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 02:07:45 +0200
> 
> So the question at hand can be considered as Consistency vs. Convenience,
> i.e. trying to achieve consistency at the cost of losing convenience.

Yes, it's consistency vs minor inconvenience in certain use cases.  I
think consistency should win big time.

> Jumping to the last screen line can be achieved by exchanging just two lines
> in next-line-or-history-element and previous-line-or-history-element:
> moving ‘(goto-char (minibuffer-prompt-end))’ to the former, and exchanging
> it with ‘(goto-char (point-max))’ from the latter.
> 
> I invite you and everyone interested to try this change for a few days
> to see its real effect.

I think we should install such a change and see if there are any
complaints.  Several people already agreed with my suggestion for how
it should work.

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-14  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-12 14:19 UP and DOWN with multi-line minibuffer history Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-12 15:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-12-12 23:04   ` John Wiegley
2015-12-12 22:47 ` Eric Hanchrow
2015-12-12 23:20 ` Juri Linkov
2015-12-13 15:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-14  0:07     ` Juri Linkov
2015-12-14  3:39       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-12-14 23:45         ` Juri Linkov
2015-12-15  3:37           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-16  0:32             ` Juri Linkov
2015-12-16  1:33               ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-12-17  0:45                 ` Juri Linkov
2015-12-16  2:02               ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-16  6:29                 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-17  0:49                 ` Juri Linkov
2015-12-15  3:43         ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-12-15 15:45           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-14  9:25     ` David Kastrup
2015-12-14 16:00       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-14 16:41         ` David Kastrup
2015-12-14 17:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <CABr8ebZDmnsCKyBnzU3sSDHefJ2_3uC4Omwg=N4qQ8h80vTxpw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-12-13  3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-13  5:38   ` Anders Lindgren

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