From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Boruch Baum Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19662: 24.4: history bloat and navigation trouble Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 01:29:36 -0500 Message-ID: <54C5DED0.505@gmx.com> References: <54C26E9F.5050908@gmx.com> <87fvazvanf.fsf@building.gnus.org> <54C496A9.7030504@gmx.com> <87mw56i9ga.fsf@building.gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="M2SjQcpT9nrjbjpqMhvUSj1FBGPE96WDi" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422253814 13179 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2015 06:30:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 06:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19662@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 26 07:30:14 2015 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 1YFdBd-00023f-S2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:30:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40149 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFdBd-0008SW-8Y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 01:30:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFdBZ-0008P7-CH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 01:30:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFdBU-0007rU-6W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 01:30:09 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37793) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFdBU-0007qn-3e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 01:30:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YFdBS-0000N0-BG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 01:30:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Boruch Baum Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 06:30:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19662 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19662-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19662.14222537551335 (code B ref 19662); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 06:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19662) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Jan 2015 06:29:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56485 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YFdAg-0000LS-6T for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 01:29:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.com ([74.208.4.201]:50856) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YFdAe-0000LF-7y for 19662@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 01:29:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [10.72.11.26] ([47.21.4.242]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmxus001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M3zjo-1XPAwN0Z98-00rUrf; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:29:05 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: <87mw56i9ga.fsf@building.gnus.org> OpenPGP: url=hkp://keys.gnupg.net X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:Y7YXuyNLewJ6Nw3L0fgoDtj18y0OEcpmfp4IvadoZB4bc2U4woi UPktK+HjgbKxyvo+AEOUKuOilTOI8PGX/6iyHMgkLPDYO95xQ+VyVbewnT2RrcxuApjosmr 2X56lmqtaEdV5RUqmFxHt+fsst4MUfiRKKqQiGUEEcaMXQxaqCfZqaTdk/LP3JqyliCR7HD 2XINHMdtZnw5evKCN/rgg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.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:98745 Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --M2SjQcpT9nrjbjpqMhvUSj1FBGPE96WDi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 01/25/2015 09:04 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Boruch Baum writes: >=20 >> No. What ends up happening is that the sequence of the history list is= >> preserved, so you can always go back to B. It has the advantage of >> reducing bloat, and if one scrolls through history much, that bloat ca= n >> be great. >> >> I can see two uses for a history: >> 1] a log of the sequence in which pages were visited; >> 2] a list of visited places, in original sequence order. >> >> For me, #2 is far and away more useful. >=20 > The current history implementation also preserves the point position, > which is probably different in each frame. Which may or may not be > helpful. >=20 > I agree that the current way of recording the history may be overkill, > but I've also found it very handy because it's so predictable. > always, without fail, takes you back to the page you were at two= > commands ago, no matter what the command was... >=20 >> One problem with the current eww implementation is that once one does >> something like A B C D C B, it becomes difficult to get to E using >> commands l/r >=20 > Where is E in that sequence of pages? >=20 That's kind of the point, it would have been historically before D. --=20 hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0 --M2SjQcpT9nrjbjpqMhvUSj1FBGPE96WDi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUxd7RAAoJEDvrUfDmCx9L6n0P/0Z3gQs1QWyQTPzagx/ADkDg 75Pl14jrHHmYghcE7DIYmmGh8vQynymM2FIwST55qCZ0yKf5h22LpavZVRzgWNoY +pWknZmVe7UXAJwrDn07gW45yvaDtyTPzIHA3YONRjoOltw2+paTyALdJnOrldmO ODb77ZGAGGCmaTHmUYobosyrvDI0jOrz4E3GPU2NcsCuHJIWNq0cvY+xfF/Wi4gq kIWnBS1VhMwz5BJxsg120Lro6UYBFkYtsr+3ok/U6O2ln7eAsSYp/939eM8cv45p yqpLbW1xDvn+E32KcPjojJaFy9sarFhRgp8oS1bVNjR24xwUHnrVcKmPEdCAfq4d IvxX/Q0U3vfZCF/ZljPhrYq4Z4De68WERjyOCiFNSiDwef+faniWj7KEqtwPUCUA mtkD4tZ49P0Caa9xBqgVcF7RxeDQpQN1JO7TK41BEFKOmY8xlB5vTD3tl+HHCeba ZiO5vT7qtSUz9SvD0kAOCkh/JN1f2FOP+i0kVFB/4BKyM+mVuh6vgpsO+rxqpYmd MIFg0OvrMbvO1f04KW1wTjFhxhw42YUvARVZeLGYpI/dRBcwxQSp5nXNtkch7F0P I9O0PURwDtlCK30WfRFfsGoa2ib5h+1AlWulq9jbpwGSD2YzYWi17dNsHaSwkC5b csXOuwWnmoCcynRxkn1u =eCAT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M2SjQcpT9nrjbjpqMhvUSj1FBGPE96WDi--