From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Completions and history Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 19:56:58 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86sfqjzhgl.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <20220411112901.kv3lsyvx6yxwjbph.ref@Ergus> <20220411112901.kv3lsyvx6yxwjbph@Ergus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22342"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ergus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 11 19:10:44 2022 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 1ndxYp-0005eB-Qq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 19:10:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40898 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ndxYo-00084L-Pu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:10:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45856) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ndxOL-0001xH-Fh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 12:59:53 -0400 Original-Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.197]:38059) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ndxOJ-0004nz-Gv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 12:59:53 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 193601C0004; Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:59:46 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <20220411112901.kv3lsyvx6yxwjbph@Ergus> (Ergus's message of "Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:29:01 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.197; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay5-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:288231 Archived-At: > I am wondering if we have some feature to list the minibuffer history > vanilla for example in completions. In ivy there was C-r which switched > completions to the minibuffer-history; icycles had a similar feature; > and helm also had something; but in the default completion system there > is not such feature as far as I know. > > Some commands like previous-line-or-history-element or the > un-docummented previous-complete-history-element do part of the work, > but there is no way to list the history and select which may be useful > for find-file or M-: to repeat previous actions. The information is > there... > > I suppose that this has been discussed before... so is there a reason > why this has not been implemented? Should I open a feature request or is > someone already opened? Indeed, this has been discussed recently in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-12/msg00802.html but no feature request was opened, since C-TAB is already taken by file-cache-minibuffer-complete.