From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: grep-at-point
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:42:19 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <095e9c72-201e-4309-9c07-a6b1fbbb5561@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170111132923.3e18d91f@gauss>
> > Doesn't `M-x grep RET M-n' give you what you want? If point
> > is on a Lisp symbol then `M-n' yanks it as the default value.
>
> It does. I wasn't aware that grep set a special history list.
> Nice.
It's not a history list. `M-n' for minibuffer input (with or
without completion) yanks a default value provided by the
command (e.g. `grep') - or several default values, one by one,
if repeated.
It is only if you use `M-n' after you have used `M-p' (which
goes backward in the history list) that `M-n' goes forward
in the history list (and then into the defaults list, when
the history is exhausted in the forward direction).
Think of the list of default values as being prepended to the
history list, and of the starting position being the "origin"
point between the two lists. If you use `M-p' from the origin
you go backward, into the history. If you use `M-n' you go
forward, into the list of defaults.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-11 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-11 17:48 grep-at-point Joe Riel
2017-01-11 19:21 ` grep-at-point Aleksandar Simic
2017-01-11 19:55 ` grep-at-point Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 19:42 ` grep-at-point Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-11 20:20 ` grep-at-point Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 20:23 ` grep-at-point Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-11 21:09 ` grep-at-point Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 21:32 ` grep-at-point Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 21:45 ` grep-at-point Marcin Borkowski
2017-01-11 19:56 ` grep-at-point Eric Abrahamsen
2017-01-11 20:15 ` grep-at-point John Mastro
2017-01-11 20:46 ` grep-at-point Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-01-11 21:01 ` grep-at-point Drew Adams
2017-01-11 21:29 ` grep-at-point Joe Riel
2017-01-11 22:15 ` xref-find-references in elisp (Was: Re: grep-at-point) Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 23:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-01-11 23:24 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 23:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-01-11 23:42 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-01-11 23:42 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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