From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13333: 24.3.50; (emacs) `Minibuffer History' Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 16:41:22 +0200 Message-ID: <871r6krzot.fsf@gnus.org> References: <871ue33z2w.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28665"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 13333@debbugs.gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 23 16:42:29 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mIB9g-0007C4-TC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2021 16:42:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57360 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mIB9f-0004ME-Qf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47092) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mIB9H-0004LS-8s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:58974) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mIB9G-0000wH-KB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mIB9G-0003nL-IN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:42:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:42:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13333 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 13333-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13333.162972969514539 (code B ref 13333); Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:42:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13333) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Aug 2021 14:41:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42284 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mIB8p-0003mP-KH for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:41:35 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:44666) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mIB8n-0003m5-Po for 13333@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:41:34 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=nhuRqjyjBI5U6akoVHboKBNDObytHHxXho14MQWHg8k=; b=ski6wXV3TNHZHcbqafM4GnJm7k /JwImGrGxiLuo4h47MAl0r16FvnNx/2VkumBzyoGyDHEnkTdfl5F9oclJPZB8qJ9UCfh7pb20X0v5 QTusUfbl7qHvPYcTN8hWTJTZYc8L4rhsR8LGUfngvrCvdzfa1Ae5+GO2wkBq6gROg5eM=; Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=elva) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mIB8c-0004Gw-Lz; Mon, 23 Aug 2021 16:41:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: <871ue33z2w.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:17:18 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:212483 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: >> You can think of this as moving through the "future history" list. > > "future history" is a misnomer. > >> There is no logical connection between the set of default values > > "default values" is a misnomer. > > There can be only one default value that it used when the user enters > empty input in the minibuffer. Other values are not "defaults". > > In most applications similar functionality is called "suggestions" > where a drop-down list of suggestions is displayed while the user > types a query into a text box. This feature is documented at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_suggest_drop-down_list > > Thus I propose to enhance the documentation by replacing the term > DEFAULTS with (DEFAULT . SUGGESTIONS) where DEFAULT will retain > its original meaning of the value returned for empty input > and SUGGESTIONS is a list of suggestions available via `M-n'. I think this sounds like a good idea. "Future history" is cute and all, but it's not really helpful as a term -- especially when "suggestions" is as clear as it is. Anybody with any comments here? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no