From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 36525@debbugs.gnu.org, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#36525: M-x default when cursor on top of a M-x command in INFO
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 01:43:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2711n5i.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59855a35-cdc2-4c58-bcb2-791c62188374@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 6 Jul 2019 15:55:10 +0000 (UTC)")
> A better way to handle this is to have a key
> (Icicles uses `M-.') that pulls text from the
> buffer into the minibuffer, appending it to
> whatever input text might already be there.
>
> Summary:
>
> Repeated `M-.' can have two different behaviors.
> You can choose (by an option) which one to use.
> [...]
>
> Whether vanilla Emacs would allow flexibility
> to this degree is not so important as at
> least having Emacs have a key that grabs
> _something_ from the buffer text and appends
> it to minibuffer input. Choice #2 above is
> pretty simple to realize - give users an
> option to specify which kind of text thing
> they want to insert.
Do you think `M-.' is a suitable key for vanilla Emacs?
Its global keybinding is `xref-find-definitions',
but is this command useful in the minibuffer?
Or could be taken for grabbing text from the buffer
to the minibuffer?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-07 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-06 11:17 bug#36525: M-x default when cursor on top of a M-x command in INFO 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-07-06 15:55 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-07 0:25 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-07-07 22:43 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2019-07-08 0:27 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 20:58 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-08 21:37 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-09 20:09 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-09 21:07 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-07 13:55 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-09 8:52 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-07-09 10:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-07-09 11:10 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-07-09 12:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-07-09 12:24 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-15 8:43 ` Sebastian Urban
2019-07-09 12:24 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-10-14 20:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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