From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch: add-log.el: changelog find file under poin Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:54:05 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <874pd69nnm.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200997571 8709 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2008 10:26:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:26:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, janneke-list@xs4all.nl To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 22 11:26:26 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 1JHGKn-0007Nm-Re for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:26:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHGKO-0002Yi-0y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:26:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHGGg-00088Z-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:22:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHGGe-00084k-I4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHGGd-000842-QJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:22:08 -0500 Original-Received: from relay03.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.201]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHGGW-0003v0-Ih; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:22:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay03.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JHGGS-000IRf-RR; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:21:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:17:17 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 7b6940144bc5d56bdacd12344196c2df X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2029 [Jan 22 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Info: {TO: local part of email appears in body} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 20 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (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:87286 Archived-At: > I would prefer something like what we discussed in that 2006 thread, a > minibuffer key (I use `M-.') that is specifically for yanking text from the > buffer into the minibuffer. > > That doesn't prohibit a particular command from also putting the file or URL > at point onto the future history list (`M-n'), but it separates the two: > general purpose yanking vs command-specific defaults. It doesn't always make > sense, for all commands in all buffers, for `M-n' to contain the file name > at point as one of its default values. As I see, there is no disagreement: `M-n' could provide the file name at point as a default value for the `C-x C-f' command, and a more general command `M-.' is for yanking text (including file names and URLs) from the buffer into the minibuffer. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/