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From: | Juri Linkov |
Subject: | bug#36525: M-x default when cursor on top of a M-x command in INFO |
Date: | Mon, 08 Jul 2019 01:43:21 +0300 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> A better way to handle this is to have a key > (Icicles uses `M-.') that pulls text from the > buffer into the minibuffer, appending it to > whatever input text might already be there. > > Summary: > > Repeated `M-.' can have two different behaviors. > You can choose (by an option) which one to use. > [...] > > Whether vanilla Emacs would allow flexibility > to this degree is not so important as at > least having Emacs have a key that grabs > _something_ from the buffer text and appends > it to minibuffer input. Choice #2 above is > pretty simple to realize - give users an > option to specify which kind of text thing > they want to insert. Do you think `M-.' is a suitable key for vanilla Emacs? Its global keybinding is `xref-find-definitions', but is this command useful in the minibuffer? Or could be taken for grabbing text from the buffer to the minibuffer?
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