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RE: History for query replace pairs
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: History for query replace pairs |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:16:39 -0700 (PDT) |
FWIW, it sounds to me like you are complicating things for no
real gain. When you are all done fiddling with this, count
the keystrokes needed for a user to take advantage of your
new dream behavior...
Keep it simple.
And just what is the problem that this is trying to solve?
Are you trying to find a way to give users easy access to
previous replacement pairs? We already have that, no?
If you want to reuse a previous old/new replacement pair,
just use `C-x ESC ESC'. You have `M-p' or `M-r' to choose
which previous pair to reuse. And you can edit such a choice.
What's the problem?
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With a reasonable extension to allow completion on demand
against the minibuffer history (with Icicles you can use `M-o'
to do that, for example), you could also complete-match against
past inputs. (And yes, it should be on-demand - past inputs
as completion candidates should not just be mixed in with the
current set of completion candidates.)
It might be better to spend a little time to provide such a
past-inputs completion feature than to monkey around adding
keys to maneuver among past input pairs they way you seem to
be doing. Just a suggestion.
- Re: History for query replace pairs, (continued)
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/04
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Tom, 2014/10/05
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/10/05
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Tom, 2014/10/06
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Juri Linkov, 2014/10/06
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Juri Linkov, 2014/10/07
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/14
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Juri Linkov, 2014/10/14
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Alan Mackenzie, 2014/10/14
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Juri Linkov, 2014/10/14
- RE: History for query replace pairs,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Juri Linkov, 2014/10/14
- RE: History for query replace pairs, Drew Adams, 2014/10/14
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Alan Mackenzie, 2014/10/14
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Andreas Schwab, 2014/10/14
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Alan Mackenzie, 2014/10/14
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Andreas Schwab, 2014/10/14
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/21
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Juri Linkov, 2014/10/21
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/22
- Re: History for query replace pairs, Artur Malabarba, 2014/10/23