insert-file-or-buffer

insert-file-or-buffer

[Dan Jacobson]

insert-file is nice and insert-buffer is nice but what would be nicer
is a combined insert-file-or-buffer that somehow detects what to do
and how best to handle completions. That way we don't have to think,
not that we ever did.

Re: insert-file-or-buffer

[Miles Bader]

Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> insert-file is nice and insert-buffer is nice but what would be nicer
> is a combined insert-file-or-buffer that somehow detects what to do
> and how best to handle completions. That way we don't have to think,
> not that we ever did.

Even better would be "insert-stuff" which automatically figures out
"what to do", and inserts something appropriate.  Report behind
schedule?  Just M-x insert-stuff, and whoa, there it is!  Handy!

-miles
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Re: insert-file-or-buffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:41:07 +0900
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> > insert-file is nice and insert-buffer is nice but what would be nicer
> > is a combined insert-file-or-buffer that somehow detects what to do
> > and how best to handle completions. That way we don't have to think,
> > not that we ever did.
> 
> Even better would be "insert-stuff" which automatically figures out
> "what to do", and inserts something appropriate.

I suggest a better name: "insert-dwim".

Re: insert-file-or-buffer

[Kim F. Storm]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:41:07 +0900
>> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> 
>> Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
>> > insert-file is nice and insert-buffer is nice but what would be nicer
>> > is a combined insert-file-or-buffer that somehow detects what to do
>> > and how best to handle completions. That way we don't have to think,
>> > not that we ever did.
>> 
>> Even better would be "insert-stuff" which automatically figures out
>> "what to do", and inserts something appropriate.
>
> I suggest a better name: "insert-dwim".

Try this:

(require 'esp)

M-x esp-insert RET

If you concentrate really hard, it may work.

-- 
Kim F. Storm  http://www.cua.dk