From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46621: Copy line Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 08:54:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83o8gf1b6t.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87tuq99ova.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87y2fkrypp.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10192"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 46621@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, juri@linkov.net To: Daniel =?UTF-8?Q?Mart=C3=ADn?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 07:55:17 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMAf-0002Ys-8s for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 07:55:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51152 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMAd-0001cZ-Oz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:55:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMAQ-0001c6-7J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:55:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMAP-0003pg-W5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:55:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMAP-0003cY-Uh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:55:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 06:55:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46621 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 46621-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46621.161380408113888 (code B ref 46621); Sat, 20 Feb 2021 06:55:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46621) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Feb 2021 06:54:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50827 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMA5-0003bw-Es for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:54:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44862) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMA2-0003bj-Uz for 46621@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:54:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39835) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDM9x-0003dC-DW; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:54:33 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1923 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lDM9w-0005jm-7K; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:54:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:200396 Archived-At: > Cc: 46621@debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov > Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 21:27:09 +0100 > From: Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, > the Swiss army knife of text editors" > > > Well, I don't object to adding it, but I'm not sure what the use case is > > here? The only time I can remember wanting something like that is when > > I'm filling a buffer with text for test purposes, which is perhaps not a > > compelling use case. > > In programming modes, if you need to declare a bunch of variables, you > may duplicate the current line several times and then proceed to rename > them. I usually use M-/ for that. It makes typing something that you just typed very easy: just a single character followed by M-/ usually does the job. This allows me to type just what is needed, without redundant "renaming".