From: Robert Weiner <rswgnu@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 29763@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29763: New Feature: Remove unneeded eval-expression in minibuffer-history
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 22:29:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6F2B0218-C379-4380-ABC7-6D5887D2266F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3pnn2ohng.fsf@gnus.org>
I did not know about M-: M-p and have muscle memory that drives me to press C-x ESC ESC. I will have to retrain a bit. You can close this issue.
-- Bob
> On Jun 24, 2019, at 4:25 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> One could argue whether showing Lisp instead of something similar to
>>> what the user actually typed is a good idea, whether it's educational
>>> or not, but this is very old and consistent behavior. If we are going
>>> to change that, I think the change should affect more than just M-:,
>>> and should probably be an optional feature.
>>>
>>> I agree with that. Think about it and decide whether such
>>> a change would likely make it acceptable for merging. If so,
>>> we can make more edits, if not, we should drop it.
>>
>> IMO, such an option could be useful, but I'm puzzled by the lack of
>> any comments from others. Not sure what does that mean.
>
> Me neither, but I'm not very enthusiastic about the idea. It's kinda
> nice that C-x ESC ESC gives you the unvarnished truth... and I just
> think it's kinda odd to use C-x ESC ESC on `M-:' at all: It's fewer
> keystrokes to say `M-: M-p'.
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
> bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-27 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-18 4:13 bug#29763: New Feature: Remove unneeded eval-expression in minibuffer-history Robert Weiner
2017-12-18 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-18 23:04 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-22 10:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-24 20:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-27 2:29 ` Robert Weiner [this message]
2017-12-22 12:16 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-12-22 12:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-12-22 14:21 ` Robert Weiner
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