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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>>  ​​One could argue whether showing Lisp instead of something similar to
>>  ​​what the user actually typed is a good idea, whether it's educational
>>  ​​or not, but this is very old and consistent behavior.  If we are going
>>  ​​to change that, I think the change should affect more than just M-:,
>>  ​​and should probably be an optional feature.
>> 
>> ​I agree with that.  Think about it and decide whether such
>> a change would likely make it acceptable for merging.  If so,
>> we can make more edits, if not, we should drop it.
>
> IMO, such an option could be useful, but I'm puzzled by the lack of
> any comments from others.  Not sure what does that mean.

Me neither, but I'm not very enthusiastic about the idea.  It's kinda
nice that C-x ESC ESC gives you the unvarnished truth...  and I just
think it's kinda odd to use C-x ESC ESC on `M-:' at all: It's fewer
keystrokes to say `M-: M-p'.

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