Re: [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use

[Andreas Schwab]

On Dez 19 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:00:59 -0600
>> 
>> On 18 Dec 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> >
>> >We don't advertise that key for a reason, so I don't think this 
>> >is a good idea.
>> 
>> Okay.  I'm curious what that reason is, if you have time to 
>> explain, but I'm fine accepting this decision as a given.
>
> The reason is simple: what you see is a side effect of how the user
> interaction was implemented in this case.

That is not true.  read-multiple-choice documents that it uses the edit
binding from query-replace-map, thus it is not a side effect, but an
explicit choice.

> If we ever decide to change the details of the implementation, C-r
> will most probably stop working.

That would be a regression.

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