From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8085: 24.0.50; (emacs) Minibuffer History Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:52:29 -0800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298174811 4100 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2011 04:06:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:06:51 +0000 (UTC) To: 8085@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 20 05:06:47 2011 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 1Pr0ZK-0000nP-O5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:06:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33794 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pr0ZK-0004FU-BG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:52:30 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcvQsZhymMmINmFdRY+zmsJQTUTAmA== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-Source-IP: acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.4D609028.001B:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:54:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , 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:44276 Archived-At: This part of the node (second sentence) is not quite correct: "A history list is actually a symbol, not a list; it is a variable whose value is a list of strings (previous inputs), most recent first." That's true except for one exception AFAIK (are there others?): `command-history'. It's value is a list of sexps, not a list of strings. I don't know what the best bug fix is. Dunno whether this should be mentioned or not, but it is not really the case that the HISTORY arg to `read-from-minibuffer' and `completing-read' must be a variable whose value is a list of strings. This is a bit surprising, but a list of non-strings also "works" in some ways. Maybe this should be passed over in silence - dunno. In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-02-14 on 3249CTO Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/imagesupport/include'