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Re: M-x up, or, GNU Emacs, GNU Readline... coincidence? I think not.
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Kevin Rodgers |
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Re: M-x up, or, GNU Emacs, GNU Readline... coincidence? I think not. |
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Wed, 05 May 2004 11:15:06 -0600 |
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Eli Zaretskii writes:
> Not only in M-x, the whole matter of command and command args history
> in Emacs should undoubtfully be mentioned in the tutorial.
>
> Would you like to send a patch?
Sure, I will. Would someone please take care to forward it to the tutorial
translators?
*** emacs-21.3/etc/TUTORIAL.orig Thu Sep 5 16:45:47 2002
--- emacs-21.3/etc/TUTORIAL Wed May 5 11:05:47 2004
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*** 1061,1069 ****
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You can learn more about Emacs by reading its manual, either as a book
! or on-line in Info (use the Help menu or type F10 h r). Two features
! that you may like especially are completion, which saves typing, and
! dired, which simplifies file handling.
Completion is a way to avoid unnecessary typing. For instance, if you
want to switch to the *Messages* buffer, you can type C-x b *M<Tab>
--- 1061,1069 ----
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You can learn more about Emacs by reading its manual, either as a book
! or on-line in Info (use the Help menu or type F10 h r). Three features
! that you may like especially are completion and history, which save typing,
! and dired, which simplifies file handling.
Completion is a way to avoid unnecessary typing. For instance, if you
want to switch to the *Messages* buffer, you can type C-x b *M<Tab>
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*** 1071,1076 ****
--- 1071,1083 ----
determine from what you have already typed. Completion is described
in Info in the Emacs manual in the node called "Completion".
+ History is another way to avoid unnecessary typing. For example, if
+ you want to find a file that you visited earlier (or a file whose name
+ is similar to one you entered earlier), you can type C-x C-f M-p and
+ Emacs will fill in the previous file name you visited (which you can
+ then edit in the minibuffer). History is described in Info in the
+ Emacs manual in the node called "Minibuffer History".
+
Dired enables you to list files in a directory (and optionally its
subdirectories), move around that list, visit, rename, delete and
otherwise operate on the files. Dired is described in Info in the
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Kevin Rodgers