bug#29763: New Feature: Remove unneeded eval-expression in minibuffer-history

[Tomas Nordin]

Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org> writes:

> For as long as I can remember, I have wanted the minibuffer history to
> strip the eval-expression wrapper around expressions that I enter by
> invoking eval-expression with M-:.  I want this because the wrapper
> adds a lot of visual noise when searching for a specific expression and
> makes it much harder to edit the expression and get trailing parentheses
> right.
>
> So if I enter:
>
>   M-: (/ 1.0 9) RET
>
> then C-x ESC ESC shows me:
>
>   (eval-expression (quote (/ 1.0 9)) nil nil 127)
>
> but I want to see just the expression that I want to reuse or edit:
>
>   (/ 1.0 9)

As a user I can easily agree on this idea.