From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 0695108 2/2: Revert "Add `r'/`l' grep command history commands"
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:38:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bn5pnrrd.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r3elo15s.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:15:43 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> One comment that I have about the feature as it was committed is that
> if we want to have an easy way of rerunning past commands, then it
> should be defined in compilation-mode, so that all its derivatives
> will get it.
I considered that, but I thought it might be more controversial. The
compilation commands may, in general, be somewhat destructive, and
rerunning them while hitting `r'/`l' may not be what you want at all.
The grep commands, on the other hand, are generally not destructive. (I
mean, they can be if you say `M-x grep RET rm *', I guess, but that
would be a very strange thing to do.)
> I also don't see a lot of mnemonic value in binding these commands to
> 'l' and 'r', and would suggest additional bindings which would be
> easier to remember even for those who don't browse URLs all day long.
They are used in all the other special modes that offer traversing a
history of generated buffers: Info, *Help*, eww...
> I also think that 100-long history for these commands is waaaaay too
> much. It should be a defcustom, and the default value should be maybe
> 10 or 16.
I don't think so. Having a 100-long history is basically nothing these
days. Creating a defcustom for something as trivial as this is a
disservice to our users: Offering pointless things to tweak (and this is
really pointless) is something that Emacs does too much already.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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2016-04-04 5:16 ` master 0695108 2/2: Revert "Add `r'/`l' grep command history commands" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 5:18 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-04 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-04 15:57 ` Mark Oteiza
2016-04-04 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-04 18:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-04-04 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-04 20:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 20:44 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-04 19:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 23:14 ` John Wiegley
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