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: Minibuffer default values list Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:22:15 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87zlycuhrd.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193013274 24075 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2007 00:34:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:34:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 22 02:34:35 2007 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 4.50) id 1IjlEY-0001tq-5t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:33:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjlEQ-00012b-Cn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:33:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjlEN-00011v-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjlEL-00011j-Mm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:33:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjlEL-00011g-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:33:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman.kiev.sovam.com ([89.162.150.100]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjlEL-0000tq-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:33:17 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by mailman.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ijo28-000Gw6-W8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:32:52 +0000 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IjlEH-000Cmz-S0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:33:14 +0300 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 233cb89e4cdd9c68f6fe52a505261b56 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1649 [Oct 21 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 25 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:81414 Archived-At: I installed a new feature (with updates in NEWS and Info manuals) since Richard approved it twice before the previous release but that was postponed due to feature freeze. It allows specifying a list of default values in the DEFAULT argument of minibuffer functions. This list of default values is accessible by typing M-n in the minibuffer; each M-n inserts the next value. The first use of this feature is the shell command guessing in dired-x. It now puts a list of available commands to the default list (accessible via M-n after typing `!' in the dired buffer) instead of temporarily pushing it to the history list. Now I propose to improve dired-x to read a list of commands from the mailcap mechanism, and later to move this code to dired.el. An alternative would be to start implementing this in dired.el (provide a list of mailcap commands available via M-n), but then after loading dired-x users will get less useful list of commands in ! (since this is not implemented in dired-x). -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/