From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7567: Please add a history variable to read-regexp Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 00:00:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2609D1C2B5E5457EA2582273774B4CE2@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291677341 15729 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2010 23:15:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 23:15:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7567@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 07 00:15:37 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1PPkHN-0001RW-9H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:15:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35565 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PPkHM-0003K2-GV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:15:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53314 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PPkHF-0003F5-ME for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PPkHE-000298-DA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:15:25 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46258) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PPkHE-000292-Be for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:15:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPjyU-0001BN-BE; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:56:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lennart Borgman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:56:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7567 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7567-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7567.12916761134473 (code B ref 7567); Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:56:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7567) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Dec 2010 22:55:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPjxg-0001A6-Vd for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:55:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPjxf-00019u-Eb for 7567@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:55:11 -0500 Original-Received: by eye27 with SMTP id 27so6677678eye.19 for <7567@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:01:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=bqLCTCk1sHcDOZB4B2WjIONchdb09hDaI9WLwrK/bok=; b=d4TYxgDx1//LeF+S536OMcKx+DRLkDTh/vApyGU4YQk79RimjB+SwcvH3oEe3SkRKk +m5TBTIEOoUJ/WE6MCgDjdNIpnH/KLo3OXHQBmlkLIjukf2h+IoWPSa2hnzsGpnfZmZi 3M9bScI8DlNVdlG0REDI9aoZe94DeeqsvrBTU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=s6WpK8Z9Eycka9EvN5u5mmZSQYW6Y2XswkXgeYJvktxozJJgxPrWAdZktAge66arz3 xuc8SaRc+0oh8bqDWmRY4/GBFY5NEdXSpaN2n638w0O9rar47Px/+RbaXGxIxms5Hj/N EsH/UiyT38Fr1w1so5N1O/5D+M6rd+TIgWIg4= Original-Received: by 10.213.33.66 with SMTP id g2mr83274ebd.84.1291676464202; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:01:04 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.29.8 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:00:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <2609D1C2B5E5457EA2582273774B4CE2@us.oracle.com> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:56:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:42239 Archived-At: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Drew Adams wrote: >> > Also take care of the strange query-replace-from-history-variable in >> > read-regexp. >> >> No answer. Was something unclear here? >> >> The current read-regexp use is problematic for example in >> multi-isearch-read-matching-buffers and >> multi-occur-in-matching-buffers. I think a common history variable >> could be used for those cases, but they currently use the default >> regexp-history variable which seems totally inappropriate. > > I don't mean to meddle here, but it's not clear to me why `regexp-history= ' is > not appropriate in the contexts you mention. =C2=A0The user is inputting = a regexp. > Why shouldn't previous regexps the user inputted be available in the inpu= t > history for this operation? Thanks for asking, I thought it was clear. Why should that regexp be used to make buffer names? It is probably a regexp that has been used for matching strings in buffers. (It might of course be a regexp from a search in *Buffer List*, but that is not the normal case.)