From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: select yank via completion Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 21:57:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83wnyexz3g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wnymda5g.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87ima5he8j.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87mtzfzt9a.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87k0uifp3w.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87d009iykt.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <3341c426-3a86-4ef0-a0ca-9102191a925b@default> <87o8jsiems.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83v9e0z1lm.fsf@gnu.org> <87wnyetwfj.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31515"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, andreyk.mad@gmail.com, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ghe@sdf.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 21 20:59:05 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kgZ2H-00085m-Hw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 20:59:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54686 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgZ2G-00020f-FX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:59:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgZ0b-0000Np-KF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:57:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34112) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgZ0a-0000c7-33; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:57:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4914 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kgZ0Y-0007n9-UX; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:57:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87wnyetwfj.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Sat, 21 Nov 2020 21:38:16 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:259540 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, spacibba@aol.com, > bugs@gnu.support, andreyk.mad@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > rudalics@gmx.at, ghe@sdf.org > Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 21:38:16 +0200 > > >> BTW, sometimes it's also handy to just browse the kill-ring > >> without immediately inserting an entry, to copy an edited entry > >> (that adds a new kill-ring entry) to paste later. To allow > >> such browsing we need to remove "*" from the interactive spec of > >> 'yank-pop'. > > > > And then where do we bitch at the user if he/she does want to yank > > into a read-only buffer? > > In the same place where 'C-x 8 RET' (insert-char) does this: > it has no "*" in the interactive spec, and allows using it > in read-only buffers to browse a list of character completions > with TAB, but exiting the minibuffer with RET signals the error > "Buffer is read-only" somewhere in the 'insert' functions. But that the function will behave differently if called via call-interactively with a non-nil 2nd argument, right?