From: JD Smith <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: comint-accumulate-marker
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:48:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2006.04.18.22.48.22.296642@as.arizona.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 15803.128.165.0.81.1145398875.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:21:15 -0700, Stuart D. Herring wrote:
>> I will install it shortly, but wanted to run one more variant of the
>> patch by everyone first. This version is permanently enabled. It
>> also saves input even when you use M-r/M-s, and it binds "C-c C-g" to
>> a new function `comint-restore-input', so no matter where you are on
>> the history ring, you can zap back to your stranded partial input
>> with C-c C-g. Let me know if that's a good binding (and where it
>> should be documented).
>
> This might make this into a "don't install now" new feature, but would it
> be preferable to treat all lines of the history like the current input?
> Readline does this, I believe, at least until you finally submit a line
> (at which point any changes to other lines might be forgotten -- I forget
> on this part). In other words, typing
>
> foo<RET>
> bar<RET>
> <UP><UP><C-a>re<UP><C-e>d<DOWN><RET>
>
> sends `rebar' as a command, and (possibly) replaces `foo' with `food' in
> the history. This is of course technically orthogonal to the current
> question, since it's about preserving editing done to history elements
> rather than to the current input (which is not a history element), but
> it's much the same to the user.
While the concept of editing history does have a particular resonance
given our current political climate ;), I thought about this and
decided it deviated too far from the "fix the broken behavior" flavor
of the current proposed patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-18 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-13 19:45 comint-accumulate-marker JD Smith
2006-04-16 0:19 ` comint-accumulate-marker Bob Portmann
2006-04-16 2:09 ` comint-accumulate-marker Richard Stallman
2006-04-17 18:06 ` comint-accumulate-marker JD Smith
2006-04-18 9:47 ` comint-accumulate-marker Nick Roberts
2006-04-18 11:25 ` comint-accumulate-marker Stefan Monnier
2006-04-18 20:50 ` comint-accumulate-marker Richard Stallman
2006-04-18 12:57 ` comint-accumulate-marker Richard Stallman
2006-04-18 19:10 ` comint-accumulate-marker JD Smith
2006-04-18 20:54 ` comint-accumulate-marker David Kastrup
2006-04-18 21:06 ` comint-accumulate-marker JD Smith
2006-04-18 23:25 ` comint-accumulate-marker Stuart D. Herring
2006-04-18 21:22 ` comint-accumulate-marker Nick Roberts
2006-04-18 21:38 ` comint-accumulate-marker JD Smith
2006-04-18 23:24 ` comint-accumulate-marker Nick Roberts
[not found] ` <1145403002.27500.42.camel@turtle.as.arizona.edu>
2006-04-19 0:01 ` comint-accumulate-marker Nick Roberts
2006-04-19 0:01 ` Bug in diff-mode? (was: Re: comint-accumulate-marker) Nick Roberts
2006-04-19 15:40 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-19 15:40 ` comint-accumulate-marker Richard Stallman
2006-04-20 7:25 ` comint-accumulate-marker David Kastrup
2006-04-20 7:45 ` comint-accumulate-marker Nick Roberts
2006-04-20 17:29 ` comint-accumulate-marker JD Smith
2006-04-18 22:21 ` comint-accumulate-marker Stuart D. Herring
2006-04-18 22:48 ` JD Smith [this message]
2006-04-18 23:39 ` comint-accumulate-marker Miles Bader
2006-04-19 0:02 ` comint-accumulate-marker JD Smith
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