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Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer? |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:28:14 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> > This is a design choice - whether successive `M-.' (or `M-n', in your
> > suggestion) should accumulate text at point, as you suggest, or should
> > provide alternative kinds of thing at point, as I suggested. I can see
> > arguments for each approach.
>
> These approaches are not conflicting. You suggest `M-.' to accumulate
> text at point with replacing alternative kinds of thing at point.
>
> Not sure what you mean by "accumulate...replacing". I suggested to _replace_
> the minibuffer input successively by different alternative things at point.
> There was no accumulation.
I mean accumulating only on the first `M-.', and replacing the thing
inserted to the minibuffer by the first `M-.' with other things on all
successive `M-.'. It would be useful to keep the initial minibuffer
input intact, and to insert/replace things within the existing minibuffer
input.
> I don't know what you mean by "in a particular place inside the command". If
> you are talking about inserting the text at point in a particular place
> within the existing input string, then I'm confused. I thought you were (as
> I am) talking about the text at point _replacing_ the existing minibuffer
> input, not being inserted into it.
I think `M-.' should not replace the existing minibuffer input, because I
imagine such a situation when the user types e.g. `M-!', types a command
and wants to *add* the thing at point to the end of the command in
the minibuffer.
> And `M-n' does this just fine. OTOH, `M-.' does the same thing
> the other way with more keystrokes required from the user,
>
> Sorry, I must not be following you at all. How is `M-.' more keystrokes
> than `M-n'?
`M-.' requires more keystrokes than `M-n' only for the cases where
a complex input string is constructed from things at point (like the grep
case). Thus `M-.' requires from the user typing the input string,
navigating to the correct place in it and typing `M-.'.
> and still is restricted in what the user might expect from this
> feature: to grab successive characters, words,
> maybe even lines to the minibuffer the same way as e.g. isearch
> does with C-w and C-y.
>
> Sorry, I'm lost. I don't see the restriction you're suggesting. Perhaps a
> concrete example would clear this up. I think I have not understood you.
I think a single key is not enough to unleash the full potential
of `M-.'. I expect that users might want additional keybindings
to yank successive characters/words/lines to the minibuffer.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, (continued)
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Kevin Rodgers, 2006/02/13
- RE: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Drew Adams, 2006/02/13
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Kevin Rodgers, 2006/02/14
- RE: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Drew Adams, 2006/02/14
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Kevin Rodgers, 2006/02/16
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Juri Linkov, 2006/02/19
Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Juri Linkov, 2006/02/14
- RE: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Drew Adams, 2006/02/14
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Juri Linkov, 2006/02/17
- RE: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Drew Adams, 2006/02/17
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?,
Juri Linkov <=
- RE: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Drew Adams, 2006/02/19
- RE: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Drew Adams, 2006/02/20
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Juri Linkov, 2006/02/20
- RE: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Drew Adams, 2006/02/20
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Mathias Dahl, 2006/02/21
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Mathias Dahl, 2006/02/21
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Miles Bader, 2006/02/22
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Johan Bockgård, 2006/02/22
- RE: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Drew Adams, 2006/02/24
- Re: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?, Miles Bader, 2006/02/25