From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, rfrancoise@debian.org, rms@gnu.org,
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; M-x occur no longer uses previous regexp as default
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:59:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcdtt0a4.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy775nyev.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:47:14 -0400")
>> The reason for removing the previous regexp from default was because
>> it makes more inconvenient to retrieve more available values from
>> the list of default values via M-n. But maybe we could just display
>> the previous regexp in the prompt and accept it when the user types RET
>> with the empty string, but don't make it available via M-n, because it is
>> available via M-p for inserting into the minibuffer for editing.
>
> Then why not use
>
> (let ((ret (read-string (format "Regexp (default %s): " foo))))
> (if (equal ret "") foo ret))
It seems this is the best to do where foo is (car regexp-history).
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-23 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-22 11:14 23.0.60; M-x occur no longer uses previous regexp as default Sven Joachim
2008-04-22 20:08 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-22 23:14 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-23 1:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-23 8:59 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-04-23 15:58 ` Richard M Stallman
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