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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lennart Borgman'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>, <7567@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#7567: Please add a history variable to read-regexp
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:57:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2609D1C2B5E5457EA2582273774B4CE2@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik3u8vJCbsk=w+Lrbcyn5m97fY2JieAYwfPAnse@mail.gmail.com>

> > Also take care of the strange query-replace-from-history-variable in
> > read-regexp.
> 
> No answer. Was something unclear here?
> 
> The current read-regexp use is problematic for example in
> multi-isearch-read-matching-buffers and
> multi-occur-in-matching-buffers. I think a common history variable
> could be used for those cases, but they currently use the default
> regexp-history variable which seems totally inappropriate.

I don't mean to meddle here, but it's not clear to me why `regexp-history' is
not appropriate in the contexts you mention.  The user is inputting a regexp.
Why shouldn't previous regexps the user inputted be available in the input
history for this operation?






  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-06 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-06  2:24 bug#7567: Please add a history variable to read-regexp Lennart Borgman
2010-12-06 22:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-06 22:57   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-12-06 23:00     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-06 23:11       ` Drew Adams
2010-12-06 23:23         ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-07  0:31           ` Drew Adams
2010-12-07  4:09           ` Drew Adams
2010-12-08  1:51         ` Juri Linkov
2010-12-08  3:03           ` Drew Adams
2010-12-06 23:03   ` Juri Linkov
2010-12-06 23:46     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-08  1:44       ` Juri Linkov
2010-12-07  3:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-08  1:57   ` Juri Linkov
2010-12-08  2:19     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-09  1:25       ` Juri Linkov
2010-12-08  3:10     ` Drew Adams
2010-12-09 14:31       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-09 16:14         ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10  3:09           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-09 14:28     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-09 17:43       ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10  3:06         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-10  3:46           ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10 20:10             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-08  3:32   ` Lennart Borgman
2012-09-20  8:30 ` bug#7567: Please add a history argument " Juri Linkov
2012-09-20 21:59   ` Juri Linkov

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