M-x up, or, GNU Emacs, GNU Readline... coincidence? I think not.

M-x up, or, GNU Emacs, GNU Readline... coincidence? I think not.

[Joe Corneli]

I don't know when I first realized this, but it was sometime this
semester.

And even if I'm the last person on earth to know that if you type

 M-x <whatever>

and then 

 M-x <up>

that your mini-buffer will fill up with whatever you typed... well,
I'm still very happy to know this fact.

What is also cool is that this generalizes. (So in particular, it
makes finding files with long filenames a breeze.)

This is such a great feature that I think it should maybe be
documented in the TUTORIAL.

(I don't know where else it might be documented at present, and if
its someplace obvious, sorry about raising this racket, but anyway,
I think it might also be good to document it in the

 "Repeating commands/Is there an equivalent to the `.' (dot) command
 of vi?"

node in the Emacs FAQ.)

Re: M-x up, or, GNU Emacs, GNU Readline... coincidence? I think not.

[Eli Zaretskii]

[This was erroneously sent to help-gnu-emacs, so I redirected the
response.]

> From: Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu>
> Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 20:07:59 -0500
> Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+eliz=gnu.org@gnu.org
> 
> I don't know when I first realized this, but it was sometime this
> semester.
> 
> And even if I'm the last person on earth to know that if you type
> 
>  M-x <whatever>
> 
> and then 
> 
>  M-x <up>
> 
> that your mini-buffer will fill up with whatever you typed... well,
> I'm still very happy to know this fact.
> 
> What is also cool is that this generalizes. (So in particular, it
> makes finding files with long filenames a breeze.)
> 
> This is such a great feature that I think it should maybe be
> documented in the TUTORIAL.

Not only in M-x, the whole matter of command and command args history
in Emacs should undoubtfully be mentioned in the tutorial.

Would you like to send a patch?

> I think it might also be good to document it in the
> 
>  "Repeating commands/Is there an equivalent to the `.' (dot) command
>  of vi?"
> 
> node in the Emacs FAQ.)

Would you like to send a patch?

TIA

Re: M-x up, or, GNU Emacs, GNU Readline... coincidence? I think not.

[Kevin Rodgers]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > Not only in M-x, the whole matter of command and command args history
 > in Emacs should undoubtfully be mentioned in the tutorial.
 >
 > Would you like to send a patch?

Sure, I will.  Would someone please take care to forward it to the tutorial
translators?

*** emacs-21.3/etc/TUTORIAL.orig	Thu Sep  5 16:45:47 2002
--- emacs-21.3/etc/TUTORIAL	Wed May  5 11:05:47 2004
***************
*** 1061,1069 ****
   ---------------

   You can learn more about Emacs by reading its manual, either as a book
! or on-line in Info (use the Help menu or type F10 h r).  Two features
! that you may like especially are completion, which saves typing, and
! dired, which simplifies file handling.

   Completion is a way to avoid unnecessary typing.  For instance, if you
   want to switch to the *Messages* buffer, you can type C-x b *M<Tab>
--- 1061,1069 ----
   ---------------

   You can learn more about Emacs by reading its manual, either as a book
! or on-line in Info (use the Help menu or type F10 h r).  Three features
! that you may like especially are completion and history, which save typing,
! and dired, which simplifies file handling.

   Completion is a way to avoid unnecessary typing.  For instance, if you
   want to switch to the *Messages* buffer, you can type C-x b *M<Tab>
***************
*** 1071,1076 ****
--- 1071,1083 ----
   determine from what you have already typed.  Completion is described
   in Info in the Emacs manual in the node called "Completion".

+ History is another way to avoid unnecessary typing.  For example, if
+ you want to find a file that you visited earlier (or a file whose name
+ is similar to one you entered earlier), you can type C-x C-f M-p and
+ Emacs will fill in the previous file name you visited (which you can
+ then edit in the minibuffer).  History is described in Info in the
+ Emacs manual in the node called "Minibuffer History".
+
   Dired enables you to list files in a directory (and optionally its
   subdirectories), move around that list, visit, rename, delete and
   otherwise operate on the files.  Dired is described in Info in the

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

M-x up, or, GNU Emacs, GNU Readline... coincidence? I think not.

[Joe Corneli]

Oops, accidentally sent this to help-gnu-emacs.... sorry, it was
supposed to be for you.


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I don't know when I first realized this, but it was sometime this
semester.

And even if I'm the last person on earth to know that if you type

 M-x <whatever>

and then 

 M-x <up>

that your mini-buffer will fill up with whatever you typed... well,
I'm still very happy to know this fact.

What is also cool is that this generalizes. (So in particular, it
makes finding files with long filenames a breeze.)

This is such a great feature that I think it should maybe be
documented in the TUTORIAL.

(I don't know where else it might be documented at present, and if
its someplace obvious, sorry about raising this racket, but anyway,
I think it might also be good to document it in the

 "Repeating commands/Is there an equivalent to the `.' (dot) command
 of vi?"

node in the Emacs FAQ.)