From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: just needed to adjust one char of the default provided Date: 10 Jan 2003 14:37:08 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ptr5y0h7.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042191785 18181 80.91.224.249 (10 Jan 2003 09:43:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:43:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Wvgr-0004ig-00 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:43:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Wvhs-0007NI-00 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:44:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18WvhL-0006oM-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:43:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Wvg0-0005iH-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:42:13 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Wvfc-0004rz-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:41:45 -0500 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18WveJ-0004Z5-00 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:40:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Wuj7-0001VZ-00 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:41:17 +0100 Original-Path: jidanni.org!news Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4174 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4174 $ echo apt-preferences > /tmp/m $ emacs /tmp/m ESC x m a n RET There I see Manual entry (default apt-preferences): ah, if I could only move over and change that - to a _ Trying ESC p ... sorry, no help there ... Sniff, I'm only one character away from what I want, but apparently I must type (or ESC /) the whole thing over to be able to adjust it. Dired's "!" puts the current hint, if any, into the ESC P list. why not man? (In the above story, we want to see the apt_preferences(5) man page.) -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780