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#12915: 24.2.50; Visiting a file via drag-and-drop should add it to the historyof visited files Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:14:54 -0800 Message-ID: <4B5D11AF1FD5475FAEDF5E6DA6FCE227@us.oracle.com> References: <87obgug641.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwwd76ll.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <83d2x9rqgn.fsf@gnu.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 1358097365 30489 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2013 17:16:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@gnu.org, 12915@debbugs.gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" , "'Juri Linkov'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 13 18:16:22 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 1TuRAN-00051h-F3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:15:02 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt105.oracle.com (abhmt105.oracle.com [141.146.116.57]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id r0DHF2M7007167; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:15:02 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:15:02 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <83d2x9rqgn.fsf@gnu.org> Thread-Index: Ac3xrBMOe0NQrW7oTMWN1FnpnHgbGgAAlFIA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] 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:69720 Archived-At: > > When this feature was discussed last time at > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs/9253/focus=43774 > > I found it too irritating that it clutters the minibuffer history > > with too many unnecessary elements that were not entered manually. > > That discussion also suggested a very simple device to avoid such > cluttering, and only add to history files which Emacs visited by user > commands. Users should be able to choose for themselves which kinds of interaction (drag-n-drop, menu access, etc.) should result in adding the file name. One size does not fit all. > So this difficulty doesn't seem to be a real one. Not for you, perhaps. > > Since this is a matter of personal preference, I think not > > Lisp callers but Emacs users should be able to specify what > > to add to the history. > > Emacs already has way too many options. Wrong. That's akin to saying that Emacs users have too many options, too much freedom to customize Emacs.