Subject: Re: bug#16542: 24.3.50; When finding a file via a bookmark, that file is not part of file-name-history

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:28:04 -0500

>> 1. A user option such as what you describe, but with nil meaning
>> "go for it generally: let the command decide", a non-nil list as
>> you mention meaning "do not let these commands decide", and any
>> other non-nil value meaning "do not let any command decide".
> I think a cleaner solution would be to have two separate history lists:
> 1. history of minibuffer input
> 2. history of visited files
> and a new option to select which history to access via M-p
> in the minibuffer that reads a file name.

Better would be to somehow give access to those two lists without going
through an option.

        Stefan