From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: M-x up, or, GNU Emacs, GNU Readline... coincidence? I think not.
Date: 05 May 2004 08:29:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u3c6fe69a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BLAtD-00017N-00@linux183.ma.utexas.edu> (message from Joe Corneli on Tue, 04 May 2004 20:07:59 -0500)
[This was erroneously sent to help-gnu-emacs, so I redirected the
response.]
> From: Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu>
> Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 20:07:59 -0500
> Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+eliz=gnu.org@gnu.org
>
> I don't know when I first realized this, but it was sometime this
> semester.
>
> And even if I'm the last person on earth to know that if you type
>
> M-x <whatever>
>
> and then
>
> M-x <up>
>
> that your mini-buffer will fill up with whatever you typed... well,
> I'm still very happy to know this fact.
>
> What is also cool is that this generalizes. (So in particular, it
> makes finding files with long filenames a breeze.)
>
> This is such a great feature that I think it should maybe be
> documented in the TUTORIAL.
Not only in M-x, the whole matter of command and command args history
in Emacs should undoubtfully be mentioned in the tutorial.
Would you like to send a patch?
> I think it might also be good to document it in the
>
> "Repeating commands/Is there an equivalent to the `.' (dot) command
> of vi?"
>
> node in the Emacs FAQ.)
Would you like to send a patch?
TIA
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2004-05-05 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-05-05 17:15 M-x up, or, GNU Emacs, GNU Readline... coincidence? I think not Kevin Rodgers
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