From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: read-face-name PROMPT arg should be self-contained, including ": " Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:39:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174271984 24227 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2007 02:39:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:39:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 19 03:39:35 2007 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 1HT7mY-0007Z8-ST for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:39:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HT7nz-0003Tk-Ap for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:41:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HT7nw-0003PL-7f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:41:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HT7nu-0003LE-Oi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:40:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HT7nu-0003Kr-L1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:40:58 -0500 Original-Received: from tomts40.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.97] helo=tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HT7mV-0006HL-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:39:31 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.81.12]) by tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070319023930.VFPG1624.tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:39:30 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CB2137F51; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:39:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Sun\, 18 Mar 2007 15\:07\:34 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (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:68071 Archived-At: >> `read-face-name' still blindly appends ": " to the prompt it >> is supplied. >> >> I thought of `read-face-name' as an internal function, not for >> users to use. >> But I agree that it could be useful for user code to call. >> So I'm not against making this change. I see that all the callers >> within Emacs are easy to change. >> >> If someone wants to do it, please do it. > Thanks, I hope someone does. > BTW, for sometime after the release, we might consider adding an optional > history-list arg to `read-face-name', so accessing history entries doesn't > include non-face stuff. I was recently thinking that rather than adding new history vars everywhere all the time, we could change the history navigation to automatically skip entries which are not completion candidates (at least for those cases that are `must-match'). Stefan