From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UP and DOWN with multi-line minibuffer history
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 01:45:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3ioegmq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d1u94s23.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 14 Dec 2015 05:39:32 +0200")
>> So the question at hand can be considered as Consistency vs. Convenience,
>> i.e. trying to achieve consistency at the cost of losing convenience.
>
> Yes, it's consistency vs minor inconvenience in certain use cases. I
> think consistency should win big time.
It's not minor inconvenience, it renders navigating multi-line items unusable.
>> I invite you and everyone interested to try this change for a few days
>> to see its real effect.
>
> I think we should install such a change and see if there are any
> complaints. Several people already agreed with my suggestion for how
> it should work.
This change sounds good in theory, but fails in practice.
We already have sevaral complaints against this change,
and no complaints about the current behavior.
So why change what is working well?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-14 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-12 14:19 UP and DOWN with multi-line minibuffer history Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-12 15:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-12-12 23:04 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-12 22:47 ` Eric Hanchrow
2015-12-12 23:20 ` Juri Linkov
2015-12-13 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-14 0:07 ` Juri Linkov
2015-12-14 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-14 23:45 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2015-12-15 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-16 0:32 ` Juri Linkov
2015-12-16 1:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-12-17 0:45 ` Juri Linkov
2015-12-16 2:02 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-16 6:29 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-17 0:49 ` Juri Linkov
2015-12-15 3:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-12-15 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-14 9:25 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-14 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-14 16:41 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-14 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <CABr8ebZDmnsCKyBnzU3sSDHefJ2_3uC4Omwg=N4qQ8h80vTxpw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-12-13 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-13 5:38 ` Anders Lindgren
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