From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Danny Nguyen <anuindale@gmail.com>, 17603@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17603: completion of previous input
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:06:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tukxgck6.fsf_-_@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd2eyogtk.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 27 May 2014 21:10:41 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> What you describe (including letting you mark the region around the
> previous match) sounds sufficiently complex (UI-wise) that using
>
> C-SPC C-r *\int ..copy text.. C-u C-SPC C-y
>
> wouldn't be noticeably more complex.
> So I think it only makes sense to provide such a feature if the choice
> of the amount to copy can be made somewhat automatic.
>
> Maybe hippie-expand's try-expand-line would work for you?
Emacs (now) has a number of different completion libraries and
frameworks, so I don't think there's anything specific to be done in
this bug report, and I'm closing it.
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2014-05-26 19:44 bug#17603: Emacs enhancement request Danny Nguyen
2014-05-28 1:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-14 15:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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