From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: spacibba@aol.com, mail@daniel-mendler.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
juri@linkov.net, arstoffel@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Completions and history
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 22:56:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1nepeX-0007XG-2g@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lew9tc5w.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:12:27 +0800)
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> > Discussing default keybindings tends to be rather unfruitful, but still:
> > unless I'm missing something, `M-r' (previous-matching-history-element)
> > is strictly less powerful than `C-M-r' (isearch-backward-regexp).
> > History completion is quite handy and would be a better use for `M-r' in
> > my opinion.
> M-r is much easier to type than C-M-r, so if anything it should be the
> other way around.
Consistency with general patterns of commands is also relevant here.
For example, C-M-s is regexp incremental forward search.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-14 2:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20220411112901.kv3lsyvx6yxwjbph.ref@Ergus>
2022-04-11 11:29 ` Completions and history Ergus
2022-04-11 16:56 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-11 17:40 ` Ergus
2022-04-12 16:20 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-12 16:53 ` Ergus
2022-04-12 16:59 ` Ergus
2022-04-12 17:12 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-12 17:35 ` Ergus
2022-04-12 18:10 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-12 17:24 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-04-12 17:50 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-04-12 18:05 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-12 19:49 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-13 7:50 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-13 12:00 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-04-13 12:12 ` Po Lu
2022-04-14 2:56 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-04-13 16:40 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-13 17:58 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-13 17:57 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-13 15:49 ` Drew Adams
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