From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: patch: add-log.el: changelog find file under poin Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:34:33 -0800 Message-ID: References: <874pd69nnm.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201012596 32417 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2008 14:36:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, janneke-list@xs4all.nl To: "Juri Linkov" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 22 15:36:54 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JHKEt-0002Tu-Br for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:36:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHKET-0002oB-Lg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:36:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHKEE-0002aa-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:35:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHKEC-0002Yr-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:35:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHKEC-0002Yc-HY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:35:52 -0500 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHKE4-0000Pv-C7; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:35:45 -0500 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m0MEZfxi023300; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:35:41 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m0L25K44025688; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:35:40 -0700 Original-Received: from 141.144.88.215 by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3527908831201012441; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:34:01 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <874pd69nnm.fsf@jurta.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87303 Archived-At: > > I would prefer something like what we discussed in that 2006 thread, a > > minibuffer key (I use `M-.') that is specifically for yanking > > text from the buffer into the minibuffer. > > > > That doesn't prohibit a particular command from also putting > > the file or URL at point onto the future history list (`M-n'), > > but it separates the two: general purpose yanking vs > > command-specific defaults. It doesn't always make > > sense, for all commands in all buffers, for `M-n' to contain > > the file name at point as one of its default values. > > As I see, there is no disagreement: `M-n' could provide the file name at > point as a default value for the `C-x C-f' command, and a more general > command `M-.' is for yanking text (including file names and URLs) from the > buffer into the minibuffer. Yes.