From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default history-length should be higher Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 08:05:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <7a6753c5-cac9-4e60-be73-42467784e8eb@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390637192 19692 80.91.229.3 (25 Jan 2014 08:06:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 08:06:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 25 09:06:38 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6yGE-0003ii-3d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:06:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50249 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6yGD-0003lO-Jv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 03:06:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58489) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6yG4-0003lC-MN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 03:06:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6yFx-0007KA-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 03:06:28 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53535) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6yFx-0007K6-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 03:06:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6yFs-0003Za-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:06:16 +0100 Original-Received: from 94-21-240-31.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.240.31]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:06:16 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-240-31.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:06:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.240.31 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169045 Archived-At: Tom gmail.com> writes: > > All users should know at least M-r, it's in the manual, so it > should be no argument against a longer history list. > I checked the manual to make sure and I also learned that isearch can be used to search the history which was new for me. One always learns new things with emacs and isearch seems a quite efficent way to search through a longer history: If an incremental search fails in the minibuffer, it tries searching the minibuffer history. *Note Minibuffer History::. You can visualize the minibuffer and its history as a series of "pages", with the earliest history element on the first page and the current minibuffer on the last page. A forward search, `C-s', searches forward to later pages; a reverse search, `C-r', searches backwards to earlier pages. Like in ordinary buffer search, a failing search can wrap around, going from the last page to the first page or vice versa.