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#7567: Please add a history variable to read-regexp Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:57:40 -0800 Message-ID: <2609D1C2B5E5457EA2582273774B4CE2@us.oracle.com> References: 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 1291677363 15859 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2010 23:16:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 23:16:03 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Lennart Borgman'" , <7567@debbugs.gnu.org> Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 07 00:15:58 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPkHj-0001g9-MA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:15:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35872 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PPkHi-0003dl-SM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:15:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53340 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PPkHH-0003JV-L4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:15:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PPkHG-00029h-4r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:15:27 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46260) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PPkHF-00029b-VQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPjub-00015R-Jb; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:52:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:52:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7567 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7567-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7567.12916759154161 (code B ref 7567); Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:52:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7567) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Dec 2010 22:51:55 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPjuU-000153-PG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:51:54 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPjuS-00014Z-Lo for 7567@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:51:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id oB6Mvi2E018416 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:57:45 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt353.oracle.com (acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153]) by rcsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id oB6IbNhq002281; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:57:44 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt001.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 830992421291676259; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:57:39 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:57:39 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcuVl0+0FU5qeWVDQBemFKLjTVvtXgAAXvuQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:52:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:42243 Archived-At: > > 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?