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: Re: just needed to adjust one char of the default provided Date: 11 Jan 2003 14:11:33 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87znq8w6zu.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <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 1042272179 19113 80.91.224.249 (11 Jan 2003 08:02:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:02:59 +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 18XGbZ-0004xq-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:02:57 +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 18XGby-0003ow-03 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 03:03:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18XGbE-0002VK-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 03:02:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18XGbC-0002QO-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 03:02:34 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18XGaf-0000yn-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 03:02:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18XGZV-0004uQ-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:00:49 +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 18XGZU-0004uH-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:00:48 +0100 Original-Path: jidanni.org!news Original-Lines: 17 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:4181 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4181 >>>>> "RMS" == Richard Stallman writes: d> $ echo apt-preferences > /tmp/m d> $ emacs /tmp/m d> ESC x m a n RET d> There I see d> Manual entry (default apt-preferences): d> ah, if I could only move over and change that - to a _ d> Trying ESC p ... sorry, no help there ... RMS> Use M-n to pull in the default value. very funny. doesn't work with the emacs version in my headers above [21.2]. furthermore, M-p gets the default in dired, say using ! on a .gz entry. Therefore M-n here, M-p there ... schizophrenia -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780