Re: Insert word at point in minibuffer

[Nick Sandow <njsand@internode.on.net>]

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Drew Adams wrote:
>> yank into the minibuffer the word at point.
>>
>> Really, what I want to know is, can this be done "out of the 
>> box" in Emacs?
>>     
>
>
> 1. I don't believe that Emacs has anything that lets you do this out of the box.
>
> There have been discussions in emacs-devel@gnu.org about providing such a
> facility - see, for instance,
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01074.html. But nothing
> has come of it so far, AFAIK.
>
>
> 2. Sometimes commands provide some text at or near the cursor as the default
> value, which can be inserted in the minibuffer using `M-n'.
>
> The OP mentioned `query-replace', for instance. The versions of commands such as
> `query-replace' provided by library `replace+.el' do this - see
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ReplacePlus. Library ffap.el does this for
> file names and URLs at point - see
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/FindFileAtPoint.
>
>
> 3. The code you sent generalizes this idea, letting you insert some text at
> point into the minibuffer at any time.
>
> Icicles does this too, but you can also repeat the key (`M-.') to retrieve and
> insert additional bits of text (e.g. words, filenames, etc.) successively, or
> you can repeat it to retrieve alternative kinds of thing (words, filenames,
> etc.) at point. See
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Inserting_Text_from_Cursor.
>
>
>   
Thanks for some useful links.  I will definitely check out replace+.el 
and icicles.  Icicles in particular seems to offer a lot of 
functionality and thus may take some time to digest.

Will any of this stuff end up in Emacs itself?  It seems to me some 
things - such as M-x query-replace suggesting a default where currently 
it does not - are just plain good ideas.

cheers


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