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Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation


From: Robert Pluim
Subject: Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:07:26 +0200

>>>>> On Thu, 01 Sep 2022 09:00:30 -0400, Stefan Monnier 
>>>>> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> said:

    >> >> >> I lost the beginning of this discussion: why can't we unify
    >> >> >> `read-char-from-minibuffer` and `read-char-by-name' into a single 
function?
    >> >> 
    Juri> Robert sent a patch that does this by adding a new arg ALLOW-SINGLE
    Juri> to `read-char-by-name'.
    >> >> 
    >> >> You still need to hit RET though, unlike `read-char-from-minibuffer'.

    Stefan> Oh, right `read-char-from-minibuffer` is more like `read-key` and 
is not
    Stefan> a good choice (IMO) to let the user enter "any char" (many chars 
would
    Stefan> require the use of an input method and it doesn't seem easy to make
    Stefan> that work).

Oh, we can make it seem to work easily enough, Iʼm just scared of the
fallout 😀

    Stefan> Then I'm all for `allow-single`.

OK. Iʼll work on the documentation.

Robert
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