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29.1; Make register-read-with-preview more useful

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>
Cc: thievol <at> posteo.net, michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 66394 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#66394: 29.1; Make register-read-with-preview more useful
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2023 20:39:49 +0200

> From: Eshel Yaron <me <at> eshelyaron.com>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
>   stefankangas <at> gmail.com,  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,  66394 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2023 19:29:19 +0100
> 
> > otherwise it is easy to revert completely my commits (it is the
> > development branch of emacs after all).
> 
> Seeing as you are not willing to make this change backward compatible, I
> think that would make sense.  I don't have commit rights to emacs.git,
> so I can't do that myself, though.

Thierry also said:

> > So it'd be great to have the previous behavior available in Emacs 30.
> 
> Sorry but I wont write this, it is not complicated to write but needs
> works and attention and I spent enough time on this.

So maybe a better way forward is for someone, perhaps you Eshel, to
add whatever is needed to provide optionally the previous behavior?

Would you like to work on that?

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