From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jim Blandy" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: space, M-x Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:58:10 -0800 Message-ID: <8f2776cb0811141058m328e6d20t57ce6ad42aabf3a7@mail.gmail.com> References: <86ljvs91kv.fsf@comm.utoronto.ca> <86fxlz8q85.fsf@comm.utoronto.ca> <8f2776cb0811100947ka9c15acn4e9e9956927840de@mail.gmail.com> <87skpvouyj.fsf@xemacs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226689245 13523 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2008 19:00:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:00:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Gilaras Drakeson To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 20:01:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L13vA-0003eK-OS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:01:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53173 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L13u2-0002V7-MD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:00:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L13tz-0002UN-9m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:00:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L13tx-0002Tx-Pb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:00:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45182 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L13tx-0002Tn-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:00:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f10.google.com ([209.85.217.10]:34608) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L13ts-0002Gs-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:00:18 -0500 Original-Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so40456gxk.18 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:59:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=Ia4g9fdbyKHI0mGyrqBzhFJbDpXhnabI/c8yKrMNNZE=; b=sswJ4ZT8xSNac4wdTqJUuMctUJCuG33Erz5snbw1SoAGLc/H9diyjz+GXTGbfF1JdC vsPRrstEFalebpQqhDMeGfNy0TlkWNp9SZEoQs38lPWXFeLN7u1pDZ2YSwGeELA6xRp3 vqUidY5LLfny4p+RCz5L4noIlxnY+hG4KRdCA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=QEawsjjQoA4AXxP2JYn7S6iCc+4YhU2vFfqylcpcrWWl2oWTKYW1JJkmtWglK19knn UOfbKUzn6xOUhgga3WUnfnTd54BITjCub9V2QDOkwEOyD4+wiaN5MWNv/1zVaqNXMHb5 1tRwSlP7tJ1I+gUoJES9Eb61DoHT5+MG4MY+s= Original-Received: by 10.143.17.13 with SMTP id u13mr548010wfi.180.1226689090136; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:58:10 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.142.43.14 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:58:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87skpvouyj.fsf@xemacs.org> Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 551a0b32a9951a1a X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105686 Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Jim Blandy writes: > > > Perhaps what you're after here is having Emacs's M-x history behave a > > bit more like bash's command history, where stepping back into the > > history retrieves both a command and its arguments. > > I use C-x ESC ESC (repeat-complex-command) for that. Right; I never got into that, but it's exactly what's called for. What's missing is completion as one edits the arguments. :)