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#13333: 24.3.50; (emacs) `Minibuffer History' Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 16:38:24 -0800 Message-ID: <1FAE0B66C2EC42119F81720C03AB4E89@us.oracle.com> References: <871ue33z2w.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357173527 30166 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2013 00:38:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 00:38:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13333@debbugs.gnu.org To: "'Juri Linkov'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 01:39:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TqYpl-0008Ra-Jn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:38:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48874 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqYpW-0005QX-IM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:38:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53822) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqYpU-0005QQ-0s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:38:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqYpS-0004Kl-UR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:38:39 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:58568) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqYpS-0004Kh-Qw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:38:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TqYqo-0002fK-13 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:40:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:40:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13333 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13333-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13333.135717359610229 (code B ref 13333); Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:40:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13333) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Jan 2013 00:39:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40586 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TqYqi-0002ev-5N for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:39:56 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:42384) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TqYqf-0002eo-Bj for 13333@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:39:54 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id r030cSlw001989 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 3 Jan 2013 00:38:28 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r030cR3f025469 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 3 Jan 2013 00:38:28 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt111.oracle.com (abhmt111.oracle.com [141.146.116.63]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id r030cRPK024594; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:38:27 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.143.132) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:38:27 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <871ue33z2w.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Thread-Index: Ac3pSgVWVsO8LQMiSRuZU4xrP2fj8gAAFpuQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:69314 Archived-At: > > You can think of this as moving through the "future history" list. > > "future history" is a misnomer. Yes. > > There is no logical connection between the set of default values > > "default values" is a misnomer. > > There can be only one default value that it used when the user enters > empty input in the minibuffer. Other values are not "defaults". > > In most applications similar functionality is called "suggestions" > where a drop-down list of suggestions is displayed while the user > types a query into a text box. This feature is documented at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_suggest_drop-down_list > > Thus I propose to enhance the documentation by replacing the term > DEFAULTS with (DEFAULT . SUGGESTIONS) where DEFAULT will retain > its original meaning of the value returned for empty input > and SUGGESTIONS is a list of suggestions available via `M-n'. I agree with your suggestion. But please propose it to everyone at emacs-devel. And please leave this bug open, unless you also correct the problems it addresses. (Yes, if your suggestion is implemented that will change some of the text of this node. But let's please get all of the problems mentioned taken care of, whether or not the suggestion gets done.)