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bug#48134: [External] : bug#48134: When sitting on top of a M-x item in
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#48134: [External] : bug#48134: When sitting on top of a M-x item in the manual |
Date: |
Sun, 02 May 2021 23:52:11 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> > With cursor on `list-colors-display', `M-x', then `M-.'
>> > pulls that text into the minibuffer: `M-x M-. RET'.
>>
>> `M-x M-. RET' can't be used because `M-.' is bound to the command
>> `xref-find-definitions' useful in the minibuffer too.
>
> Yes, well choose another key then.
Which one?
> It's unfortunate that Emacs has chosen to waste a
> repeatable key on a nonrepeatable command such as
> `xref-find-definitions', but so it goes.
A command to pull text to the minibuffer is not repeatable either.
> What I tried to suggest was to have a more general
> feature to insert text at point into the minibuffer.
> There are lots of possibilities for that.
I agree such a command would be useful.
But to what key to bind it?
- bug#48134: When sitting on top of a M-x item in the manual, (continued)
bug#48134: [External] : bug#48134: When sitting on top of a M-x item in the manual, Drew Adams, 2021/05/01