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?

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  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>
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  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>
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  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

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Kevin Rodgers