From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: minibuffer-eldef (was: improving query-replace and query-replace-regexp) Date: 01 Jun 2004 21:58:13 -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> <873c5hd35q.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <8765aadbgb.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086141678 9099 80.91.224.253 (2 Jun 2004 02:01:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 02:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , wl@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 02 04:01:08 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 1BVL40-0000Wx-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 04:01:08 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BVL40-0002dj-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 04:01:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BVL4G-0001KD-AH for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:01:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BVL48-0001JB-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:01:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BVL47-0001IH-Aq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:01:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BVL47-0001Hj-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:01:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.166] (helo=simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BVL1D-0002K1-Dh; Tue, 01 Jun 2004 21:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from empanada.local ([67.70.165.15]) by simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040602015810.PYTM28088.simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@empanada.local>; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:58:10 -0400 Original-Received: by empanada.local (Postfix, from userid 502) id 5A9D11D207D; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:58:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:24381 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24381 >> "Query replace (default %s with %s): " >> >> And your compact default prompt grew so much :-/ > This is a case where `minibuffer-electric-default-mode' would really > help... Actually I already use it, so the space concern for me has to do with being able to show the whole prompt, not just with being able to show the prompt plus the user input. Also I like avoiding words (which are necessarily language-specific). Must be some Europe-vs-US thing, seeing how the US road signs are full of text whereas Europeans ones use mostly language-neutral symbols. > What do people think of enabling this by default? I'm all for it. I've turned it on a long while ago and never regretted it. Stefan