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Re: patches for etags and shell-command
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Juri Linkov |
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Re: patches for etags and shell-command |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:38:07 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I have two patches today; the first one changes shell-command so
> that the default interactive argument is the current buffer's filename.
>
> Is the idea that you type M-n to bring the current buffer's filename
> into the minibuffer, and then you type the rest of the command around
> it? Access to that file name would be useful, but at the same time,
> this interface would be rather inconvenient to use.
I think using M-n to insert the buffer filename is very useful once users
know about this. So the manual should mention it after installing.
And also M-! invoked in dired could insert a list of all marked files to
the minibuffer. This could be used as a replacement of `!' and a special
character `*' surrounded by whitespace. It is more reliable for users
to see the complete list of marked files in the minibuffer before running
the command than remembering all rules of using `*', `?' and whitespace
in the command run with `!' in dired.
> This patch corrects a bug in etags that causes completion to only
> consider the tags in a single TAGS buffer. With the match tag
> completion will consider tags from all the active TAGS buffers.
>
> That seems like a clean extension. I will forward it to the etags
> maintainer.
I haven't tested this patch, but after looking at it I noticed that it
deletes the initial message:
(message "Making tags completion table for %s..." buffer-file-name)
but retains the finishing message:
(message "Making tags completion table for %s...done" buffer-file-name)
I think both are necessary.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/