From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: read-regexp
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:55:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljwlr8ch.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1vydpvli.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:13:09 -0400")
>> The problem is in the ambiguous name of the argument DEFAULT.
>> It was intended to provide exactly the same functionality as the
>> argument STRING-DESCRIBING-DEFAULT of the function `read-face-name',
>> i.e. to display in the minibuffer prompt what default the function
>> will use if the user types RET.
>
> The question is rather: why isn't that string available via M-n as
> defaults usually do? I think adding that regexp to M-n is a better
> option, and that makes the use of the name `default'
> completely justified.
This string is not available via M-n due to historical requirements of
`occur'. It used to display the last element of regexp-history
in the prompt and use it when the user types RET. Other commands
that use read-regexp historically don't require such a string.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-18 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-18 12:41 read-regexp Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-18 16:19 ` read-regexp Juri Linkov
2008-10-18 19:13 ` read-regexp Stefan Monnier
2008-10-18 19:55 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-10-18 21:47 ` read-regexp Stefan Monnier
2008-10-18 23:29 ` read-regexp Juri Linkov
2008-10-18 19:21 ` read-regexp Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-18 19:59 ` read-regexp Juri Linkov
2008-10-18 16:23 ` Word Delimited Query Replace (was: read-regexp) Juri Linkov
2008-10-18 19:21 ` Word Delimited Query Replace Stefan Monnier
2008-10-18 19:52 ` Juri Linkov
2008-10-18 21:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-18 23:29 ` Juri Linkov
2008-10-19 2:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-19 22:48 ` Juri Linkov
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