From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: completing-read depricated initial-input Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 13:58:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87edzgkizw.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21719"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:5s9rIe0yXesFQT890ynRfE4Ncz4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 22 13:59:13 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o3z0r-0005PF-53 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2022 13:59:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39666 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o3z0p-0005We-NK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:59:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37934) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o3z03-0005WS-NJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:35996) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o3z02-0000rt-4J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o3yzy-00047K-Nq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2022 13:58:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137986 Archived-At: 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 -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal