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bug#48134: When sitting on top of a M-x item in the manual
From: |
Howard Melman |
Subject: |
bug#48134: When sitting on top of a M-x item in the manual |
Date: |
Sun, 02 May 2021 10:09:12 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (darwin) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> This is how Emacs works all over the place -- `M-n' should get you the
> suggestion. Making all prompts tell you about this standard feature
> would be less than optimal, so I don't think there's anything to fix
> here, and I'm closing this bug report.
I suggest making this standard feature a little more
explicit in the emacs manual. I think it's only mentioned
in the Minibuffer History node (in Emacs 27) which is fine,
but the only index entry for this is "future history for
file names". I think it would be better to also (or just)
index "future history" in the previous paragraph.
Also a sentence explaining how this standard feature
commonly behaves would help. Something like:
This is often a value at point relevant to the command such
as a symbol, word, file name or color.
(with perhaps a mention of thing-at-point)
--
Howard
bug#48134: [External] : bug#48134: When sitting on top of a M-x item in the manual, Drew Adams, 2021/05/01