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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: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 23:09:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y317jefe.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e584ef5-0d1b-4ed0-97e9-b22252289a7f@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 8 Jul 2019 14:37:14 -0700 (PDT)")

>> > I will point out that `M-.' is a repeatable
>> > key.  And a repeatable key is good for a
>> > command that is repeatable, such as doing
>> > something to/with consecutive bits of text
>> > (e.g. "things") from a buffer.
>>
>> A keybinding doesn't need to be a single key
>> to be repeatable.  ‘C-x e e e’ is repeatable.
>
> Agreed 100%.  In general, I put most of my
> repeatable keys on a prefix key.
>
> I don't argue that a key sequence to grab
> stuff from the buffer and insert it into the
> minibuffer needs to be a single key.

Then a key sequence like ‘C-x M-. M-. M-.’
could be used to copy text from the buffer
to the minibuffer.  And then why not let it
be copied to any buffer, not just the minibuffer.
For instance, select the active region in one buffer,
switch to another window, and pull text from the region
in other window - without adding it to the kill-ring.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-09 20:09 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
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 [this message]
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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