From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: completing-read depricated initial-input Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 19:36:08 +0200 Message-ID: <87zghzs4xj.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <86letphfke.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <86mte3lsj2.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <871qvfoce1.fsf@web.de> <87zgi2tqwt.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87r13ca80y.fsf@dataswamp.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="27262"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:nQgKbWt0TOyHKJSyWWAyLNW3cZM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 26 19:36:58 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1o5WBt-0006qo-Uz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 19:36:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33194 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5WBs-00065K-RC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37536) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5WBG-000657-V2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:51538) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5WBF-0004Zv-AN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o5WBD-0005qV-H7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 19:36:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138104 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: >> That's something similar to a cache memory which is based >> on the principle of spacial and temporal proximity, I still >> don't see why whatever suggestion it comes up with isn't >> then the default value simply? >> >> It is shown and if you want to edit it first, it is >> inserted with M-n. > > True. For few entries that is fine. M-n once or multiple > times or M-p followed by RET. Imagine 20 entries per day, > that is just fine. > > When you have many entries it is easier to press RET. > Imagine 500 entries per day. It's faster. If you want it all the time you should rather have a variable for that instead of sending it twice to the function. That'd be even faster. And make more sense. And if you do it 500 times a day you should write a program and automate it completely instead of relying on little clever shortcuts here and there ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal