GNU bug report logs - #10477
zap-to-char should allow picking from history

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:29:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 10477 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#10477: zap-to-char should allow picking from history
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:48:30 +0100

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

> I tried the up arrow because this is what OP asked to implement:
>
>   "zap-to-char should allow typing e.g., the up arrow to pick a recently used
>    character, and then RET."

I wasn't aware that <up> traversed the history -- I've always used
`M-p'.  But, yes, <up> should work in zap-to-char, too, then.

> Using read-from-minibuffer would allow this for free.

How would you implement read-char-with-history using
read-from-minibuffer?  Rebind self-insert-command?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 210 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.