From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: HIST to read-from-minibuffer Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 04:52:10 +0100 Organization: University of Cambridge Message-ID: References: <8739xgta9l.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87ljb7q33m.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274845958 31373 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2010 03:52:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 03:52:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 26 05:52:36 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1OH7fV-0008TB-Pm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 May 2010 05:52:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OH7fV-00048C-Da for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 23:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36821 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OH7fQ-00047k-JD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 23:52:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OH7fP-0004G7-BM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 23:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49227) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OH7fP-0004Fp-51 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 23:52:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OH7fI-0008KI-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 May 2010 05:52:20 +0200 Original-Received: from smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.95.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 05:52:20 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 05:52:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+c5k3QLnl+AOsq+8Z9PJSEVUHrc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:125275 Archived-At: On 2010-05-25 19:20 +0100, Leo wrote: > This bit is what confuses me: > > (hist . 0) > ^ > +----- why '0' here to mean first element? The doc-string says: positions are counting from '1' while '0' means the first element. That '1' and '0' is rather confusing. Leo