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bug#16837: 24.3.50; Allow a HISTORY arg for `read-file-name', `read-file
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#16837: 24.3.50; Allow a HISTORY arg for `read-file-name', `read-file-name-default' |
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Fri, 29 Apr 2016 19:39:13 +0200 |
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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Please consider allowing an optional HISTORY arg to these functions
> (with the default value being of course `file-name-history').
>
> It can happen that someone wants the behavior of one of these functions,
> but with a different file-name history, such as `shell-command-history'.
Yes, that seems potentially useful. It currently uses the hard-coded
`file-name-history' history.
Anybody have any objections to adding this? I see one possible
complication -- it'll be Yet Another Optional Parameter that has to be
passed on to `read-file-name-function', and if somebody has defined that
to take fewer parameters, it'll bomb...
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