From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: read-regexp Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:59:18 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87zll1pt85.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87iqrp7wgm.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224360507 31453 80.91.229.12 (18 Oct 2008 20:08:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:08:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 18 22:09:10 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KrI6j-0007Ej-KH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:09:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrI5e-0001cF-In for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KrI4y-0001NT-7x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KrI4w-0001N8-Lg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59891 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrI4w-0001N5-HD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]:63648) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KrI4v-0000yE-2a; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:07:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KrI4t-000HWX-0u; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:07:11 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:21:22 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 5389b9e13478507b5d7b23e4ed053241 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 5422 [Oct 16 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: common white list} X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: white ip list X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Trusted X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: trusted X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104606 Archived-At: >> I thought that the name STRING-DESCRIBING-DEFAULT is too long and clumsy >> but had no better idea. Unless you want to propose a better name, I will >> rename the argument DEFAULT of `read-regexp' to the same name >> STRING-DESCRIBING-DEFAULT as below with docstring fixes: > > DEFAULT-VALUE sounds good enough to me, but please also make sure that > the doc string does not hint it is somehow related to the "additional > defaults". In fact, I suggest to rephrase the last sentence of the > doc string such that it doesn't use the word "defaults", but instead > explains that those are values you pass to read-from-minibuffer for > making them available via M-n. Ok, this could be rephrased as: "Values available via M-n are the string at point, the last isearch regexp, the last isearch string, and the last replacement regexp." -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/