Re: comint-accumulate-marker

[JD Smith]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:21:15 -0700, Stuart D. Herring wrote:

>> I will install it shortly, but wanted to run one more variant of the
>> patch by everyone first.  This version is permanently enabled.  It
>> also saves input even when you use M-r/M-s, and it binds "C-c C-g" to
>> a new function `comint-restore-input',  so no matter where you are on
>> the history ring, you can zap back to your stranded partial input
>> with C-c C-g.  Let me know if that's a good binding (and where it
>> should be documented).
> 
> This might make this into a "don't install now" new feature, but would it
> be preferable to treat all lines of the history like the current input? 
> Readline does this, I believe, at least until you finally submit a line
> (at which point any changes to other lines might be forgotten -- I forget
> on this part).  In other words, typing
> 
> foo<RET>
> bar<RET>
> <UP><UP><C-a>re<UP><C-e>d<DOWN><RET>
> 
> sends `rebar' as a command, and (possibly) replaces `foo' with `food' in
> the history.  This is of course technically orthogonal to the current
> question, since it's about preserving editing done to history elements
> rather than to the current input (which is not a history element), but
> it's much the same to the user.

While the concept of editing history does have a particular resonance
given our current political climate ;), I thought about this and
decided it deviated too far from the "fix the broken behavior" flavor
of the current proposed patch.