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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rswgnu@gmail.com
Cc: 29763@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29763: New Feature: Remove unneeded eval-expression in minibuffer-history
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:28:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a7ybm4yp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+OMD9gzKMyYTm-r9Pp2a8am1=5S=CbXovVTpoaGFTvC7UO02w@mail.gmail.com> (message from Robert Weiner on Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:04:18 -0500)

> From: Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:04:18 -0500
> Cc: 29763@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  ​​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.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-22 10:28 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 [this message]
2019-06-24 20:25       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-27  2:29         ` Robert Weiner
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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