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bug#24577: 25.1; Proposal to improve C-u C-h c behavior
From: |
Ivan Shmakov |
Subject: |
bug#24577: 25.1; Proposal to improve C-u C-h c behavior |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 05:40:40 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> Dmitri Paduchikh <dpaduchikh@gmail.com> writes:
> C-u C-h c does not work in read-only buffers. And even if the buffer
> is writable it's rarely an appropriate place to insert info about key
> bindings. I think it would be better if C-u C-h c placed its output
> into kill ring and printed it in the echo area instead of the current
> behavior.
I believe that this behavior is a common idiom in Emacs.
For example, M-! date RET shows the current date and time in
echo area, while C-u M-! date RET inserts it at point – with
both actions making sense depending on the situation.
I guess C-u C-h c behavior is mainly useful when writing about
Emacs itself (including writing bug reports, or conversing on
IRC, etc.), but I can easily see it being handy nevertheless.
Also, for read-only buffers, one can use C-h c without C-u, and
then copy the result from the *Messages* buffer.
On the other hand, I’m not aware of any of Emacs commands adding
the result of some operation directly to the kill ring.
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bug#24577: 25.1; Proposal to improve C-u C-h c behavior, Andreas Schwab, 2016/10/01
bug#24577: 25.1; Proposal to improve C-u C-h c behavior, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/10/01