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"D. Goel" <deego@glue.umd.edu> writes:

|> schwab@suse.de (Andreas Schwab) writes:
|>=20
|> > "D. Goel" <deego@glue.umd.edu> writes:
|> >=20
|> > |> > Then why don't you just use M-n?
|> > |>=20
|> > |> i think Dan explained that in the post..
|> >=20
|> > I don't think so.  M-n is explicitly mentioned in NEWS, and properly
|> > documented in the Emacs manual.  So he could just read the docs.
|>=20
|> Dan said:
|>=20
|> ,----
|> | Sure we can use M-p and M-n, they will give us recent choices but no=
t
|> | the current filename in question.=20
|> `----
|>=20
|> And indeed, recent choices may have nothing to do with the current
|> filename, AFAICT.

You didn't try it yet, did you?  Unless Dan doesn't talk about Emacs 21,
this works at expected.

Andreas.

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