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From: Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default history-length should be higher
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 07:56:42 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20140125T085248-431@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7a6753c5-cac9-4e60-be73-42467784e8eb@default

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:
> 
> BTW, whether someone finds a history list of 1000 elements to be
> long or reasonable might also have to do with how they access its
> elements.
> 
> If someone typically just cycles among elements using, say, `M-p',
> instead of searching (using, say, `M-r') or completing, then 1000
> would generally be far too long a list - as would even 100 probably.
> (I tend to complete against the history list.)

All users should know at least M-r, it's in the manual, so it 
should be no argument against a longer history list.





  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-25  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-24 19:10 Default history-length should be higher Tom
2014-01-24 20:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25  1:35   ` Drew Adams
2014-01-25  6:39     ` Tom
2014-01-25  7:42       ` Drew Adams
2014-01-25  7:56         ` Tom [this message]
2014-01-25  8:05           ` Tom
2014-01-25  8:45           ` Drew Adams
2014-01-26  5:00           ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2014-01-26 19:22             ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-26 19:44               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-26 20:19                 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-26 20:34                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-26 21:16                   ` Drew Adams
2014-01-26 23:44               ` Trent W. Buck
2014-01-26 23:52               ` Stefan Monnier

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