From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: replace history Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:21:09 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200712262348.lBQNmdPO013976@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <87ejd7ucj3.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199280084 15822 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2008 13:21:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:21:24 +0000 (UTC) To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.individual.net Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 02 14:21:44 2008 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 4.50) id 1JA3XT-0002uQ-AS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:21:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JA3X7-0004m4-4p for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:21:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JA3Wz-0004kk-Vh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:21:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JA3Wy-0004k0-Bn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:21:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JA3Wy-0004jr-2A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:21:12 -0500 Original-Received: from moderators.individual.net ([130.133.4.7]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JA3Wx-0003FJ-Tn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:21:12 -0500 Original-Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.66]) by moderators.individual.net (Exim 4.67) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.individual.net with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1JA3Ww-0008EK-DO>; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:21:10 +0100 Original-Received: from relay1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.67]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.67) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.individual.net with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1JA3Ww-0000mX-CX>; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:21:10 +0100 Original-Received: from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.1.2]) by relay1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.67) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.individual.net with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1JA3Ww-0006JJ-Bc>; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:21:10 +0100 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.uni-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:21:10 +0100 (MET) Original-Path: individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 15 X-Orig-X-Trace: individual.net dpE6O442A6A+f4VEfGaBIQJL+3XgaWf5moOWvsByEW86HalF5Y Cancel-Lock: sha1:RXf4s8KAbFs6JMJvWl1wDfJyjxw= sha1:PA8zhZ5WOgvTFQZY/klySKDLa+o= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) X-Originating-IP: 130.133.1.2 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list 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:17280 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: I am somewhat unhappy at the idea of giving a special meaning to C-M-p in the minibuffer. It is true that its usual meaning (backward-list) will not be used often in the minibuffer. But it will be used sometimes. I would think that for example in `eval-expression' this would be true, but do you really think it is needed for `query-replace'? I think Dan's suggested way of operation would be really neat, but I don't care much what key that activates this feature. Someone mentioned using a prefix argument and that it was already taken. How about differentiate between prefix arguments (negative versus positive etc), as some commands do?