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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>,
	"48134@debbugs.gnu.org" <48134@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#48134: [External] : bug#48134: When sitting on top of a M-x item in the manual
Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 23:23:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SA2PR10MB4474F7A785401276B64D6630F35D9@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lf8yqk9t.fsf@mail.linkov.net>

> > With cursor on `list-colors-display', `M-x', then `M-.'
> > pulls that text into the minibuffer: `M-x M-. RET'.
> 
> `M-x M-. RET' can't be used because `M-.' is bound to the command
> `xref-find-definitions' useful in the minibuffer too.

Yes, well choose another key then.

It's unfortunate that Emacs has chosen to waste a
repeatable key on a nonrepeatable command such as
`xref-find-definitions', but so it goes.

> Fortunately, `M-x M-n RET' already pulls that text
> into the minibuffer.

What text?  Just a command name at point?

What I tried to suggest was to have a more general
feature to insert text at point into the minibuffer.
There are lots of possibilities for that.

(Some of them are available with `M-.' in Icicles.
You can see them described in the doc string Eli
so objected to being shown.)





  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-01 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-01  5:41 bug#48134: When sitting on top of a M-x item in the manual 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-05-01  8:59 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-05-01 12:15   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-05-02  7:14     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-02 14:09       ` Howard Melman
2021-05-02 16:09       ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-05-03  9:00         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-01 14:01 ` bug#48134: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-01 14:35   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-01 16:28     ` Drew Adams
2021-05-01 20:09   ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-01 23:23     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2021-05-02 20:52       ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-03  0:35         ` Drew Adams

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