From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: insert-file-or-buffer Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:41:07 +0900 Message-ID: <873b6zo7oc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167352935 18922 80.91.229.10 (29 Dec 2006 00:42:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:42:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 29 01:42:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H05p5-0006ox-7S for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:42:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H05p4-0006vB-De for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:42:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H05oP-0006OV-QI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:41:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H05oN-0006M9-OU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:41:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H05oN-0006Lz-Kv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:41:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [203.216.5.72] (helo=smtp02.dentaku.gol.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H05oL-0001aA-Ly; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:41:26 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-98-080.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.98.80] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1H05o9-0002gR-8z; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:41:13 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E5C212F40; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:41:07 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Dan Jacobson System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Dan Jacobson's message of "Fri\, 29 Dec 2006 01\:08\:42 +0800") Original-Lines: 14 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15487 Archived-At: Dan Jacobson 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?