From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer? Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:07:50 +0100 Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0602121307i7cb74070r40beab1d61e7df49@mail.gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139778522 13729 80.91.229.2 (12 Feb 2006 21:08:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:08:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 12 22:08:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8OSQ-0007Gg-HU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:08:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8OSO-0007zr-BH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:08:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F8ORr-0007vR-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:07:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F8ORm-0007q4-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:07:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8ORl-0007pp-Kx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:07:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.249.82.202] (helo=xproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F8OW3-000661-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:12:20 -0500 Original-Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s17so549326wxc for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:07:50 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=l17UM6IkebELJ5lmPQTlc8VuaVXmi2eORlO5lXgxH82umTHc8S3gdHLMrc+9pq8Ze1BhbkoUK8xMp+m12+71rl/U0qDZAy21+8X96un66BKoPjwLI9c03I3MIySLLD/kz4aqAKvSAthrKgT4ftAV1/fXJtQBhGVOB9wF51p0fHE= Original-Received: by 10.70.29.10 with SMTP id c10mr1755382wxc; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:07:50 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.70.105.1 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:07:50 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Drew Adams In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:50423 Archived-At: > I am curious, what do you use this for? > > Uh, as I said, to pick up a file name or URL (or other name) in a buffer, > for use as minibuffer input. Yeah yeah yeah, you explained that... :) I was more interested in the below= : > Example: You're in a SQL script on a line like "@some-long-file-name.sql"= . > You use `C-x 4 f M-.' to pull that text into the minibuffer, to visit tha= t > file. This saves you selecting the text and pasting it into the minibuffe= r; > that's all. This was what I was curious about. I'm always interested in how other Emacs users use Emacs to get things done in an effective way.