From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: M-x up, or, GNU Emacs, GNU Readline... coincidence? I think not. Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 11:15:06 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4099211A.1060704@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083777417 9341 80.91.224.253 (5 May 2004 17:16:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 17:16:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 19:16:49 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLQ0n-00026g-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 19:16:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLQ05-0006ZU-4j for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 13:16:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLPzl-0006F9-Rf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 13:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLPz7-0005Qa-NM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 13:15:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.4.58.12] (helo=horus.isnic.is) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1BLPz6-0005Ng-Bv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 13:15:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (mail.fu-berlin.de [130.133.1.2]) by horus.isnic.is (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/isnic) with ESMTP id i45HF2gi083849 for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 17:15:02 GMT (envelope-from ihs_4664@yahoo.com) Original-Received: by Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (Exim 4.32) from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.10.36]) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp id <1BLPz4-000HmR-7j>; Wed, 05 May 2004 19:15:02 +0200 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Wed, 5 May 2004 19:15:02 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 52 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1083777301 2034488 I 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:7836 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:7836 Eli Zaretskii writes: > Not only in M-x, the whole matter of command and command args history > in Emacs should undoubtfully be mentioned in the tutorial. > > Would you like to send a patch? Sure, I will. Would someone please take care to forward it to the tutorial translators? *** emacs-21.3/etc/TUTORIAL.orig Thu Sep 5 16:45:47 2002 --- emacs-21.3/etc/TUTORIAL Wed May 5 11:05:47 2004 *************** *** 1061,1069 **** --------------- You can learn more about Emacs by reading its manual, either as a book ! or on-line in Info (use the Help menu or type F10 h r). Two features ! that you may like especially are completion, which saves typing, and ! dired, which simplifies file handling. Completion is a way to avoid unnecessary typing. For instance, if you want to switch to the *Messages* buffer, you can type C-x b *M --- 1061,1069 ---- --------------- You can learn more about Emacs by reading its manual, either as a book ! or on-line in Info (use the Help menu or type F10 h r). Three features ! that you may like especially are completion and history, which save typing, ! and dired, which simplifies file handling. Completion is a way to avoid unnecessary typing. For instance, if you want to switch to the *Messages* buffer, you can type C-x b *M *************** *** 1071,1076 **** --- 1071,1083 ---- determine from what you have already typed. Completion is described in Info in the Emacs manual in the node called "Completion". + History is another way to avoid unnecessary typing. For example, if + you want to find a file that you visited earlier (or a file whose name + is similar to one you entered earlier), you can type C-x C-f M-p and + Emacs will fill in the previous file name you visited (which you can + then edit in the minibuffer). History is described in Info in the + Emacs manual in the node called "Minibuffer History". + Dired enables you to list files in a directory (and optionally its subdirectories), move around that list, visit, rename, delete and otherwise operate on the files. Dired is described in Info in the -- Kevin Rodgers