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#6980: Could goto-char please have its own history list? Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:27:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: <878vr1rqpc.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <89731AF8DD9241E7807DCEED9672DC4B@us.oracle.com> <87sjoz543b.fsf@mail.jurta.org> 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 1313670495 8574 80.91.229.12 (18 Aug 2011 12:28:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:28:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6980@debbugs.gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 18 14:28:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qu1hh-0000Ri-Cb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:28:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56586 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qu1hg-00017b-G8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.213.19.132 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:27:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87sjoz543b.fsf@mail.jurta.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:30:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:50128 Archived-At: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 13:52, Juri Linkov wrote: >>> > I can't see no reason its history should be mixed by something else. >>> > (More than devel historic reasons ;-) >>> >>> It makes sense to share the same history that contains only numeric >>> values between all commands that use `read-number', like >>> e.g. `goto-line' and `goto-char' (with some changes), because >>> non-numeric values (added to the history from other commands) >>> are useless for such number-reading commands. >> >> I don't have much of an opinion about the suggestion. >> There are always pros & cons to making a history more or less specific. >> >> But I'll point out that just because non-numeric histories are inappropr= iate for >> numeric input does not mean that the same numeric history should be used= for all >> numeric inputs. > > Yes, not all number-reading commands should share the numeric history. > > For instance, version-control commands that read a revision number > can also accept non-numeric values like "submit:". =C2=A0So every case > should be carefully considered on its own. And of course I mean "I can see no reason its history should be mixed by something else". ;-)