From: burton@openprivacy.org (Kevin A. Burton)
Cc: alex@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: irepeat.el - repeat through history data FAST
Date: 26 Mar 2002 01:12:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wuvzu1zy.fsf@openprivacy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203260851.g2Q8pGO07464@aztec.santafe.edu>
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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Hm, I actually thought that irepeat could be an alternative to or a
> replacement for completing-read. But often this does not make sense,
> for example I have used irepeat for finding files -- but since irepeat
> searches a list of strings for matches, the really existing files are
> not used for completion, the file-name-history is. In this case, how
> would you want to augment find-file with irepeat?
>
> The completion facilities you add could have a switch so that they disable
> themselves when file name completion is in use. You can look at
> minibuffer-completing-file-name, or at minibuffer-completion-table.
>
> Please give it a try.
I plan on giving this a good looking over. This is an area of Emacs that I
really don't spend much time in... give me a few weeks as I am busy right now.
I will get back to you.
Kevin
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2002-03-23 16:13 ` irepeat.el - repeat through history data FAST Richard Stallman
2002-03-23 18:42 ` Kevin A. Burton
2002-03-25 0:19 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-25 10:42 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-03-25 22:38 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-26 0:55 ` Kevin A. Burton
2002-03-26 8:51 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-26 9:12 ` Kevin A. Burton [this message]
2002-03-28 7:26 ` Kevin A. Burton
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