> We could conceivably make a second M-n insert another possible input > that one might want. In effect, this would mean putting another > element at the "front" of the history list. That could be a new > convention that could be generalized to other things.
This is already implemented by a small 9-line patch I proposed in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-05/msg01755.html It allows M-n in the minibuffer to insert input from the list of default values. Each consecutive M-n inserts a new default value from the list. For `grep' and `occur' there are at least five useful default values: 1. word at point - (current-word t) 2. tag at point - (funcall (or find-tag-default-function (get major-mode 'find-tag-default-function) 'find-tag-default)) 3. active region - (and transient-mark-mode mark-active (buffer-substring-no-properties (region-beginning) (region-end))) 4. last isearch regexp - (car regexp-search-ring) 5. last kill from the kill ring - (current-kill 0) With this patch, it is possible to make a list of all these default values accessible in the minibuffer via M-n. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
