bug#66394: 29.1; Make register-read-with-preview more useful

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
>>> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  michael_heerdegen@web.de,
>>>   stefankangas@gmail.com,  66394@debbugs.gnu.org
>>> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:30:50 +0000
>>> 
>>> here the last patch that provide Emacs-29 previous behavior as asked on 
>>> emacs-dev,
>>> I made it the default for now.
>>> The only customization one have to do to make a change is through
>>> register-use-preview which have now three options:
>>> 
>>> - basic (default - same as Emacs-29- )
>>> - nil (simple preview with filtering, default and no confirm)
>>> - never (same as nil but without any preview)
>>> - t  (the improved version with navigation etc...)
>>> 
>>> I don't know if you want to restore previous behavior (emacs-29), if so 
>>> this patch
>>> will apply against the previous one.
>>> (0001-Don-t-confirm-with-RET-even-when-overwriting-in-regi.patch).
>>
>> Thank you for all your efforts in this matter.
>>
>> I asked on emacs-devel that people try this and your previous
>> proposal, and provide opinions.  (Those CC'ed here are also invited,
>> of course.)  Let's wait for their responses for a couple of days
>> before we make the decision how to proceed.
>
> Thanks, there is no hurry, let me know if something else is needed, I
> will make the needed changes in NEWS and regs.texi once the changes will be
> accepted.

I made a little error in one of the patch when merging from a working
file for emacs-29.1, attaching here the two patches again with error
corrected (read `register-use-preview` instead of
`register-preview-use-preview`), sorry for this.


-- 
Thierry

0001-Don-t-confirm-with-RET-even-when-overwriting-in-regi.patch
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0002-Provide-emacs-29-behavior-for-register-preview.patch
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