From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: M-x up, or, GNU Emacs, GNU Readline... coincidence? I think not. Date: 05 May 2004 08:29:37 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083735281 26648 80.91.224.253 (5 May 2004 05:34:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 05:34:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 07:34:36 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLF3E-0004rH-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 07:34:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLEww-0000Ds-6W for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 01:28:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLEwq-0000Dg-B5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 01:28:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLEwK-00006Z-Ku for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 01:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLEwK-00006L-6Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 01:27:28 -0400 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Joe Corneli on Tue, 04 May 2004 20:07:59 -0500) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:7831 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:7831 [This was erroneously sent to help-gnu-emacs, so I redirected the response.] > From: Joe Corneli > 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 > > and then > > M-x > > 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