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Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation
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Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation |
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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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- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Juri Linkov, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Robert Pluim, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Robert Pluim, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Stefan Monnier, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation,
Robert Pluim <=
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Robert Pluim, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/01
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Robert Pluim, 2022/09/01