From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7567: Please add a history variable to read-regexp Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:51:47 +0000 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <874oaprpzg.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <2609D1C2B5E5457EA2582273774B4CE2@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291774547 24959 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 02:15:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 02:15:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7567@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 03:15:43 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ9ZC-0007wf-2k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:15:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50920 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQ9ZB-0006kn-6R for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:15:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43337 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQ9Z3-0006je-Kv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:15:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ9Z2-0005FW-HM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:15:29 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:38066) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ9Z2-0005FS-D5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:15:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ9FG-0000r9-AR; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:55:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:55:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7567 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7567-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7567.12917732653218 (code B ref 7567); Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7567) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Dec 2010 01:54:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ9Ef-0000pr-Ky for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:54:25 -0500 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ9Ed-0000pZ-Qv for 7567@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:54:24 -0500 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D76026E8217; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:00:11 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6782451C1D6; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:00:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:11:53 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:55:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:42277 Archived-At: > It's impossible to have it both ways, because the user's intention is a variable > that cannot easily and always be taken into consideration. IOW, there are some > things the programmer can decide when writing the function call that reads input > (you can use any history var you want, including new ones), but still you cannot > always know what the user really needs/wants. Does Icicles provide a way for the user to select and switch history variables dynamically while the minibuffer is active? This looks like a possible way to overcome this limitation.