From: jidanni@jidanni.org
To: jpw@pobox.com, drew.adams@oracle.com
Cc: 355@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: bug#355: M-x should prompt with function under cursor as default
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:43:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsl2pigm.fsf__26708.7531778545$1212775695$gmane$org@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.12758.1212763022.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
JPW> Do the Emacs developers think that this feature is worth adding ?
JPW> Ooops, I missed Stef's reply to the BTS saying no. Fair enough :)
SM> In any case, I don't think the functionality you're asking makes much
SM> sense: it is rather rare to do a M-x where the command you want to run
SM> happens to be under point.
Just as often as C-h f and C-h v for me at least.
And why not upgrade the sensitivity of C-h v and C-h f and also make
their prompting default behavior unified with M-x. Incorporating the
John Paul Wallington bug #355 and Drew Adams bug #371 patches would be
a big step in that direction.
next parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-06 17:43 UTC|newest]
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2008-06-06 17:43 ` jidanni [this message]
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2008-06-06 18:18 ` bug#355: M-x should prompt with function under cursor as default Stefan Monnier
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2008-06-06 18:37 ` jidanni
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2008-06-05 1:18 ` John Paul Wallington
2008-06-05 17:58 ` jidanni
2008-06-05 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-05 19:11 ` John Paul Wallington
2008-06-05 21:15 ` John Paul Wallington
2008-06-03 22:53 jidanni
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