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From: Michael Heerdegen via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>,
	"Barra Ó Catháin" <barra@ocathain.ie>,
	73308@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73308: [PATCH] Add file-to-register and buffer-to-register.
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:18:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cbagkbq.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87jzfamkv2.fsf@posteo.net> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Tue,  17 Sep 2024 14:10:41 +0000")

Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net> writes:

> More or less you can have the same with point-to-register, the advantage
> is that when you kill the buffer, the register-alist entry is turned in
> a file-query entry (when buffer is representing a file of course), for
> example from register.el buffer:
>
> C-x r <SPC> RET

I'm worrying a bit: with this patch we would have 3 different types of
registers that would really be very similar.  The user would have to
think about which is appropriate when setting the register.  Or - if the
question doesn't matter - why have 3 different types?


Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-17 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-16 23:32 bug#73308: [PATCH] Add file-to-register and buffer-to-register Barra Ó Catháin via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-17 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-17 14:10   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-09-17 19:18     ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-09-18  2:51       ` Barra Ó Catháin via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-18  2:26     ` Barra Ó Catháin via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-18  2:19   ` Barra Ó Catháin via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-24 14:09 ` Barra Ó Catháin via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-05 10:08   ` Eli Zaretskii

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