GNU bug report logs - #6980
Could goto-char please have its own history list?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 22:27:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: easy

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 6980 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6980 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Could goto-char please have its own history list?
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:50:39 +0300

> 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.
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