Re: Referring to revisions in the git future.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 12:13:35PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 09:46:04 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> > Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>, address@hidden

> > On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 08:49:34AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> > > It's not like anybody's going to want to type off "abbreviations" by
> > > hand anyway: too error-prone.

> > I'm going to want to do this, that's why I started this thread.  Using a
> > computer to kill and yank such a number is going to be such a downer.  Do
> > you also kill and yank a variable name each time you need to type it in,
> > or do you just type it?

> I suggest "M-/" instead, I'm using that with bzr revno's as well.
> It's way better than copy/paste, and usually is right on target after
> you type the first 2 characters.  Sometimes I need to type M-/ twice.

Thanks, I didn't know about M-/.  I'll give it a try.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).