Re: irepeat.el - repeat through history data FAST

[Kevin A. Burton]

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Alex Schroeder <address@hidden> writes:

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> I think, because the list of symbols is easy to obtain and reasonably fast to
> search (unlike the list of existing files).  Thus there perhaps, a transparent
> replacement would be the right thing to do.

A transparent replacemet would be great.
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> Maybe we should add it to Emacs, then let people offer ways to use it
> (ie. write functions which use irepeat to do useful stuff), and then let us
> consider wether we want to add those to Emacs.  BTW irepeat comes with some
> examples, and some of these use the semantic package which is not part of
> Emacs, yet.  So perhaps we just want to take the core of irepeat and add it to
> Emacs instead of adding the whole list of functions using it.  Thus we add
> irepeat and helpers, which is an alternative to completing-read for elisp
> authors.  That seems like a good first step to me.

I would rather stabilize irepeat first.  It is too early to talk about making
this a standard part of emacs.

Thanks.

Kevin

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