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Could goto-char please have its own history list?

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri <at> jurta.org>, "'Lennart Borgman'" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6980 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6980: Could goto-char please have its own history list?
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:41:51 -0700

> > I can't see no reason its history should be mixed by something else.
> > (More than devel historic reasons ;-)
> 
> It makes sense to share the same history that contains only numeric
> values between all commands that use `read-number', like
> e.g. `goto-line' and `goto-char' (with some changes), because
> non-numeric values (added to the history from other commands)
> are useless for such number-reading commands.

I don't have much of an opinion about the suggestion.
There are always pros & cons to making a history more or less specific.

But I'll point out that just because non-numeric histories are inappropriate for
numeric input does not mean that the same numeric history should be used for all
numeric inputs.

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