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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk
Subject: Re: Lispref on history-add-new-input
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:29:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ac8vkj1k.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Fm06H-0002hL-SV@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:13:25 -0400")

>       @defvar history-add-new-input
>     ! If the value of this variable is @code{nil}, standard functions that
>     ! read from the minibuffer don't add new elements to the history list,
>
> It would be clearer to break the sentence here.
>
>     ! allowing code to explicitly manage the history by using
>     ! @code{add-to-history}.

The main purpose of this variable was to allow Lisp code to use
add-to-history after reading an input.  In the Info documentation
the description of this variable goes just after the description
of add-to-history, so there could be some text that connects these two.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-02  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-01  8:04 Lispref on history-add-new-input Kim F. Storm
2006-06-01 12:05 ` Juri Linkov
2006-06-02  3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2006-06-02  9:29   ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2006-06-02 10:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-02 22:40       ` Richard Stallman
2006-06-03  8:28         ` Eli Zaretskii

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