From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: completing-read depricated initial-input
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 13:58:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edzgkizw.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: HE1PR0502MB300483D718539FF160986777B4B29@HE1PR0502MB3004.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com
Anders Munch wrote:
>> It is in manual for mining history, as long time Emacs user
>> I am using this so often, every day, together with M-p, and
>> I even forgot how I learned it.
>
> Mining? Oh, you mean minibuffer history, section 8.5,
> I suppose that was an autocorrect? That is some kind of
> discoverable, I guess, but a weak one.
Jean has real experience from mining so for him it's trivial
to extract.
(info "(emacs) Minibuffer History")
> Trying it out, I can't seem to come up with any
> minibuffer-using commands where this "future history"
> contains anything useful, so I guess that explains why
> I never memorised the feature. xref-find-definitions is
> especially weird: It walks through most or maybe all of the
> symbols in my TAGS file in something like the order they are
> found in the file. Anyone know what's up with that?
On the contrary, it's _vertical_ and known as linear or
sequential search.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_search
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2022-06-22 10:02 completing-read depricated initial-input Anders Munch
2022-06-22 11:58 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-06-22 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2022-06-22 13:43 Anders Munch
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2022-06-23 20:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-23 11:19 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-23 12:12 ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-23 14:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-23 21:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-23 21:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-23 14:36 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-24 2:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-24 6:59 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-23 15:19 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-23 15:24 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-23 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-23 22:10 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-06-23 22:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-23 22:28 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-06-24 7:08 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-24 8:19 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-06-24 11:00 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-24 16:58 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-06-24 8:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-24 11:31 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-25 18:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-25 19:51 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-26 17:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-24 2:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-23 16:23 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-06-23 20:58 ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-23 21:54 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-06-24 2:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-22 3:09 ` Po Lu
2022-06-22 3:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-22 4:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-06-23 8:20 ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-23 8:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-23 8:57 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-06-23 10:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-23 11:26 ` Tassilo Horn
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2022-06-23 21:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-24 8:03 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-06-23 21:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-23 11:58 ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-23 12:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-23 14:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-06-23 14:46 ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-23 15:18 ` Robert Pluim
2022-06-23 20:46 ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-24 8:40 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-06-24 2:22 ` Emanuel Berg
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2022-06-23 21:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-23 21:42 ` Emanuel Berg
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