Re: [External] : Re: Completions and history

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Discussing default keybindings tends to be rather unfruitful, but still:
  > > unless I'm missing something, `M-r' (previous-matching-history-element)
  > > is strictly less powerful than `C-M-r' (isearch-backward-regexp).
  > > History completion is quite handy and would be a better use for `M-r' in
  > > my opinion.

  > M-r is much easier to type than C-M-r, so if anything it should be the
  > other way around.

Consistency with general patterns of commands is also relevant here.
For example, C-M-s is regexp incremental forward search.

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