From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10550: 24.0.92; doc of `history-length' Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:48:43 -0800 Message-ID: <135AFF1F7DC1475CA2415422DB477571@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326930603 11272 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2012 23:50:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:50:03 +0000 (UTC) To: 10550@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 19 00:50:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RnfGQ-0007jl-OL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:49:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54571 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnfGQ-0004Q9-Df for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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As a general rule, numeric limit vars should have `max' or `min' in the name. As far as the doc goes, the most important thing is missing. One can pretty much guess that this value limits the length of history lists, but the question is which history-list entries are dropped: the oldest or the new ones? Does the list stay the same, with new values rejected, or do new ones replace the oldest ones? Or do new ones replace the next-newest ones? Why make users guess or experiment? And for the doc string the info is also missing about which history lists are affected: "those that don't specify their own maximum lengths" (to quote the Elisp manual). In GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-01-16 on MARVIN Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include --ldflags -LD:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/lib'