bug#29763: New Feature: Remove unneeded eval-expression in minibuffer-history

[Robert Weiner]

I did not know about M-: M-p and have muscle memory that drives me to press C-x 
ESC ESC.  I will have to retrain a bit.  You can close this issue.

-- Bob

> On Jun 24, 2019, at 4:25 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>>> ​​One could argue whether showing Lisp instead of something similar to
>>> ​​what the user actually typed is a good idea, whether it's educational
>>> ​​or not, but this is very old and consistent behavior.  If we are going
>>> ​​to change that, I think the change should affect more than just M-:,
>>> ​​and should probably be an optional feature.
>>> 
>>> ​I agree with that.  Think about it and decide whether such
>>> a change would likely make it acceptable for merging.  If so,
>>> we can make more edits, if not, we should drop it.
>> 
>> IMO, such an option could be useful, but I'm puzzled by the lack of
>> any comments from others.  Not sure what does that mean.
> 
> Me neither, but I'm not very enthusiastic about the idea.  It's kinda
> nice that C-x ESC ESC gives you the unvarnished truth...  and I just
> think it's kinda odd to use C-x ESC ESC on `M-:' at all: It's fewer
> keystrokes to say `M-: M-p'.
> 
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