From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: improving query-replace and query-replace-regexp Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:33:29 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040528.182035.197345599.wl@gnu.org> <87k6yvorzf.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <20040529213132.GA31322@fencepost> <40BD1C52.6010200@yahoo.com> <20040602003220.GA31885@fencepost> <40BF6F55.5070306@yahoo.com> <20040603222015.GA21059@fencepost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086370447 29565 80.91.224.253 (4 Jun 2004 17:34:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:34:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ihs_4664@yahoo.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 04 19:33:37 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BWIZU-0003IY-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 19:33:36 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BWIZU-0001DQ-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 19:33:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BWIZs-0005V3-GD for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:34:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BWIZo-0005Tw-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BWIZo-0005TV-0K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BWIZn-0005TS-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BWIZO-0002YS-DP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:33:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BWIZN-0005iT-RD; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:33:29 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: <20040603222015.GA21059@fencepost> (message from Miles Bader on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:20:15 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:24539 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24539 I long ago (during Gerd's reign) advanced a patch that put messages in a little appended " [...]" box while you were in the minibuffer. I thought it made using the minibuffer _much_ more pleasant in the presence of errors; the current behavior (were messages _replace_ the minibuffer text you're still entering, for a short period of time!) is pretty annoying, and I imagine must be very confusing for newbies. I would not mind installing this as an option so that people could try it out and we could decide whether it is a good change of default behavior.