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Re: minibuffer history positions - 0 or 1 based?
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Ian Zimmerman |
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Re: minibuffer history positions - 0 or 1 based? |
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Date: |
Sat, 12 Nov 2005 06:19:03 -0800 (PST) |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 |
Eli> In the current development sources, this fragment was changed to
Eli> say:
Eli> (VARIABLE . STARTPOS) Use VARIABLE (a symbol) as the history
Eli> list, and assume that the initial history position is STARTPOS (a
Eli> nonnegative integer).
Eli> Specifying 0 for STARTPOS is equivalent to just specifying the
Eli> symbol VARIABLE. `previous-history-element' will display the most
Eli> recent element of the history list in the minibuffer. If you
Eli> specify a positive STARTPOS, the minibuffer history functions
Eli> behave as if `(elt VARIABLE (1- STARTPOS))' were the history
Eli> element currently shown in the minibuffer.
Eli> Does the above answers your question?
Yes, thanks.
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