From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welsh Duggan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default history-length should be higher Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:00:50 -0500 Message-ID: <8761p7uykd.fsf@maru2.md5i.com> References: <7a6753c5-cac9-4e60-be73-42467784e8eb@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390712460 18697 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2014 05:01:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:01:00 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 26 06:01:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W7HqF-0002Xh-Jb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 06:01:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7HqF-0003Ej-9C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:01:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57131) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7Hq8-0003D5-W6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:01:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7Hq4-0005Y7-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:01:00 -0500 Original-Received: from md5i.com ([75.151.244.229]:46626 helo=maru2.md5i.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7Hq4-0005Xm-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:00:56 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=md5i.com; s=dkim; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:To:From; bh=uaNsyd6wp8H4AlDxr21w7kHs4GXhIRY/2Gpu/eoYrn0=; b=qJYQi9JeIuQPapDdp/QqDtlc6Y37hOsdb/TQWhbg7euNJYX1a3UuHr1AxlGR3JVuwJRZhWWfh1+6uHhTx4+lf6uWtJe7Ma9dSv72H7lJjxkYCRJFm/T0+3kS6Y/kU7nJ; Original-Received: from md5i by maru2.md5i.com with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1W7Hpy-0004Je-No for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:00:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Tom's message of "Sat, 25 Jan 2014 07:56:42 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 75.151.244.229 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169104 Archived-At: Tom writes: > Drew Adams oracle.com> writes: >> >> BTW, whether someone finds a history list of 1000 elements to be >> long or reasonable might also have to do with how they access its >> elements. >> >> If someone typically just cycles among elements using, say, `M-p', >> instead of searching (using, say, `M-r') or completing, then 1000 >> would generally be far too long a list - as would even 100 probably. >> (I tend to complete against the history list.) > > All users should know at least M-r, it's in the manual, so it > should be no argument against a longer history list. FWIW, I've been using emacs for many, many years, and did not know about M-r. On the other hand, I don't object to increasing the history size, because now I know about M-r! Thanks! -- Michael Welsh Duggan (md5i@md5i.com)