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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 8085@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8085: 24.0.50; (emacs) Minibuffer History
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:11:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbbpdt65.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E117FBDB86C74633863F6EC00003DF45@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:52:29 -0800")

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> "A history list is actually a symbol, not a list; it is a variable whose
> value is a list of strings (previous inputs), most recent first."
>
> That's true except for one exception AFAIK (are there others?):
> `command-history'.  It's value is a list of sexps, not a list of
> strings.

The sentence is referring to minibuffer history lists; command-history
is not one.  I've tweaked the documentation to make this clearer.





      reply	other threads:[~2011-02-27 22:11 UTC|newest]

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2011-02-20  3:52 bug#8085: 24.0.50; (emacs) Minibuffer History Drew Adams
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