From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: burton@openprivacy.org (Kevin A. Burton) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: irepeat.el - repeat through history data FAST Date: 27 Mar 2002 23:26:01 -0800 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87k7rxkvau.fsf@openprivacy.org> References: <87y9glt4h1.fsf@openprivacy.org> <200203231613.g2NGDkG02163@aztec.santafe.edu> <87g02rxh0k.fsf@openprivacy.org> <200203250019.g2P0Jck02925@aztec.santafe.edu> <87n0wxylld.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017300508 13918 127.0.0.1 (28 Mar 2002 07:28:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 07:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16qUKi-0003cN-00 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:28:28 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16qUU0-0001CV-00 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:38:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16qUK8-0005dQ-00; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 02:27:52 -0500 Original-Received: from dsl081-061-015.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.61.15] helo=openprivacy.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16qUJ3-0005c6-00; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 02:26:45 -0500 Original-Received: from openprivacy.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by openprivacy.org (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -5) with ESMTP id g2S7QjID017714; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:26:45 -0800 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by openprivacy.org (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -5) id g2S7QiE2017708; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:26:44 -0800 Original-To: Alex Schroeder In-Reply-To: <87n0wxylld.fsf@gnu.org> Original-Lines: 45 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2238 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2238 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alex Schroeder writes: > I think, because the list of symbols is easy to obtain and reasonably fast to > search (unlike the list of existing files). Thus there perhaps, a transparent > replacement would be the right thing to do. A transparent replacemet would be great. > Maybe we should add it to Emacs, then let people offer ways to use it > (ie. write functions which use irepeat to do useful stuff), and then let us > consider wether we want to add those to Emacs. BTW irepeat comes with some > examples, and some of these use the semantic package which is not part of > Emacs, yet. So perhaps we just want to take the core of irepeat and add it to > Emacs instead of adding the whole list of functions using it. Thus we add > irepeat and helpers, which is an alternative to completing-read for elisp > authors. That seems like a good first step to me. I would rather stabilize irepeat first. It is too early to talk about making this a standard part of emacs. Thanks. Kevin - -- Kevin A. Burton ( burton@apache.org, burton@openprivacy.org, burtonator@acm.org ) Location - San Francisco, CA, Cell - 415.595.9965 Jabber - burtonator@jabber.org, Web - http://relativity.yi.org/ For evil to win, is for good men to do nothing. - Winston Churchill. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Get my public key at: http://relativity.yi.org/pgpkey.txt iD8DBQE8osWJAwM6xb2dfE0RAvIpAKCUo12Rd2s/zvOmk6anaJG4meFgsgCeKlA2 aEZlvUvs94mvWboD4PyepQ4= =2oY9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel