From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key bindings proposal Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:47:31 +0100 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87k4nezvqk.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <19534.1494.627000.357123@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19537.40472.267000.563053@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87tymlv41y.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87aaodo1qt.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87tymlvyif.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87occtc9pa.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <8C662051648B4596802BF3DD72FC64FD@us.oracle.com> <87lj7wcdzf.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <5BDE59A3371641649BE147451A98DFF0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282744602 10195 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2010 13:56:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:56:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'Thierry Volpiatto' To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 25 15:56:41 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1OoGT2-00057m-OT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:56:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33045 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OoGT2-0007nh-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:56:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56524 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OoGSw-0007nZ-3Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoGSu-0004I8-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:56:33 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]:60971) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoGSu-0004Hx-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:56:32 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56EFD6E806E; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C51A5451C141; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:56:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5BDE59A3371641649BE147451A98DFF0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:38:46 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129207 Archived-At: > Why _what_ is not in vanilla Emacs - (a) Icicles or (b) the addition of previous > command inputs to the command history or (c) the ability to complete against > history items? (c) > For (c), the answer is that no one has bothered to add the feature to vanilla > Emacs. Note: Completion against the history list has this advantage over cycling > and searching it (`M-p', `M-r'): the age of the input retrieved is irrelevant. > > c1. During minibuffer input anytime (not necessarily input with completion), you > can use `M-o' to insert a previous input from the input history using completion > (recursive minibuffer). This is on-demand history completion. I think `M-h' is a better key since it has obvious mnemonics: h = history. > IIRC, at one point you or someone else proposed simply adding previous inputs to > the completion-candidate set. That is misguided, IMO - the two sets should be > kept separate. But completion can be allowed independently against both sets - > even during the same input interaction. Some web browsers combine previous input (sorted alphabetically or by frequency) with suggestions in the same list.