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In article <mailman.1043.1107720238.2841.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Neon Absentius  <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 06:36:05PM +0100, upro wrote:
>>(btw: How do I get the minibuffer output
>> [e. g. on M-x emacs.version] to point in the main buffer?).
>
>Maybe there is a smarter way but this works. Use eval-expression with
>an argument.  "eval-expression" is bound to "M-:". Thus 
>
>M-3 M-: emacs-version RET
>
>should work. At least it works in my emacs: "21.3.1".

Why the "3" prefix-arg?

Thanks,

David