Re: [PATCH] Document history more verbosely (was: [patch] space avoids recording in history)
Hello Rocco,
On Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 11:17:04 +0000, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> Attached is a patch documenting how the history works.
Much thanks! I'd propose an additional paragraph about different
prompt classes (to be inserted as 2nd paragraph):
| Different prompts are used to enter various categories of
| informations: Email addresses, muttrc commands, shell commands, search
| patterns, and some such. Mutt maintains several lists of $history
| previous entered items: One list for each one of those categories.
On Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 11:27:38 +0000, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> I vote for a line in UPDATING as ignoring duplicates is worth
> mentioning, IMHO.
Impossible: Nobody knows when history undupping was implemented.
Dinosaurs were still the masters in that era. Even Mutt 1.2.5 has it!
Rumors pretend it might predate the Y2K Big Bug...
| + Space prefix at prompts inhibits history recording (2006-07-04)
While at it, Rocco, are you aware that providing this UPDATING list
of user visible changes was a Really Good Idea? It saved me precious
time and efforts several times these last days. Thanks!
Writers of feature patches could also be encouraged to propose, when
appropriate, a not yet timestamped line (or short PDF slide-show) for
UPDATING. Aside of their patch, to avoid collisions.
| 1.5.6 (2004-02-01):
|
| ! the 'list' and 'subscribe' commands now take regular expression
| rather than string lists
[...]
| ! mailing lists can be recognized via domain matching when
| starting with '@'
@domain matching was never released, because soon after superseded
by regexps. Both great work of TLR. So the 2nd entry is misleading:
nothing has to start with @. I'd propose to remove the entry, or append
a comment: (constraint obsoleted by powerfull regexp matching described
two entries above).
Bye! Alain.
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