From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, juri@linkov.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 09:00:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvler39ruq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czcfgu6m.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:23:13 +0200")
> >> >> I lost the beginning of this discussion: why can't we unify
> >> >> `read-char-from-minibuffer` and `read-char-by-name' into a single function?
> >>
> Juri> Robert sent a patch that does this by adding a new arg ALLOW-SINGLE
> Juri> to `read-char-by-name'.
> >>
> >> You still need to hit RET though, unlike `read-char-from-minibuffer'.
Oh, right `read-char-from-minibuffer` is more like `read-key` and is not
a good choice (IMO) to let the user enter "any char" (many chars would
require the use of an input method and it doesn't seem easy to make
that work).
Then I'm all for `allow-single`.
Stefan
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2022-07-25 13:01 ` emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation Robert Pluim
2022-07-25 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-25 14:48 ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-25 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-26 12:52 ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-26 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-26 14:23 ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-26 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-26 16:54 ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-26 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-27 7:54 ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-27 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-25 17:52 ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-25 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-25 18:42 ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-25 19:49 ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-26 7:59 ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-26 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-27 7:46 ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-27 8:13 ` Robert Pluim
2022-07-27 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-27 18:54 ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-27 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-27 19:55 ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-28 5:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-28 6:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-28 7:13 ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-28 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-28 7:10 ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-28 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-28 19:40 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-30 7:29 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-31 8:49 ` Robert Pluim
2022-08-31 16:09 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-31 16:36 ` Robert Pluim
2022-08-31 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 16:56 ` Robert Pluim
2022-08-31 17:13 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-31 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 17:26 ` Robert Pluim
2022-08-31 17:29 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-08-31 18:04 ` Juri Linkov
2022-08-31 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-01 7:22 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-01 8:14 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-01 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-01 12:23 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-01 13:00 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-09-01 13:07 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-01 15:28 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-01 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-01 15:58 ` Robert Pluim
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