From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Need an enabler for a bad habit. Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:33:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: <877iygcrtx.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162374093 23990 80.91.229.2 (1 Nov 2006 09:41:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 09:41:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 01 10:41:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfCbA-0005qn-Qf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:41:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfCbA-0002xd-7X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:41:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news1.uni-leipzig.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: individual.net uMWx92xQEnQzBsNgXguV4wSyn4J5KYgjldUIvR7yD/BQZKcoAE User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Go4GV29crUdFrHHCYybOx9i6wbw= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142837 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38456 Archived-At: Pascal Bourguignon writes: >> Is there a way to click on the mini-buffer or use a shortcut key so that >> my cursor is placed in the mini-buffer before I begin to type a command? > > M-x > > For example: > > M-x find-file RET /tmp/test RET I wonder if that is really what the parent poster meant. Look at what he writes: > I know, I know. There is no need. I can just start to type my > command and it will automatically appear in the mini-buffer. This > has to do with my own uncorrectable bad habit, not necessity. That sentence, "I can just start to type my command and it will automatically appear in the mini-buffer." confuses me. I mean, he just can't do that, he has to type M-x first. Is he maybe using Viper mode? It will be interesting to see what he really meant, when he hopefully reports back here. :) /Mathias