From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: insert-file-or-buffer
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:41:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873b6zo7oc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2459.1167332860.2155.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> (Dan Jacobson's message of "Fri\, 29 Dec 2006 01\:08\:42 +0800")
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> insert-file is nice and insert-buffer is nice but what would be nicer
> is a combined insert-file-or-buffer that somehow detects what to do
> and how best to handle completions. That way we don't have to think,
> not that we ever did.
Even better would be "insert-stuff" which automatically figures out
"what to do", and inserts something appropriate. Report behind
schedule? Just M-x insert-stuff, and whoa, there it is! Handy!
-miles
--
Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here,
beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?
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2006-12-29 0:41 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2006-12-29 11:28 ` insert-file-or-buffer Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-29 18:27 ` insert-file-or-buffer Kim F. Storm
2006-12-28 17:08 insert-file-or-buffer Dan Jacobson
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