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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation |
Date: | Thu, 01 Sep 2022 09:00:30 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> >> >> 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'. Oh, right `read-char-from-minibuffer` is more like `read-key` and is not a good choice (IMO) to let the user enter "any char" (many chars would require the use of an input method and it doesn't seem easy to make that work). Then I'm all for `allow-single`. Stefan
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