Re: Default history-length should be higher

[Tom]

Tom <adatgyujto <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> All users should know at least M-r, it's in the manual, so it 
> should be no argument against a longer history list.
> 

I checked the manual to make sure and I also learned that isearch can 
be used to search the history which was new for me.

One always learns new things with emacs and isearch seems a quite
efficent way to search through a longer history:


   If an incremental search fails in the minibuffer, it tries searching
the minibuffer history.  *Note Minibuffer History::.  You can visualize
the minibuffer and its history as a series of "pages", with the
earliest history element on the first page and the current minibuffer
on the last page.  A forward search, `C-s', searches forward to later
pages; a reverse search, `C-r', searches backwards to earlier pages.
Like in ordinary buffer search, a failing search can wrap around, going
from the last page to the first page or vice versa.