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When sitting on top of a M-x item in the manual

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: "48134 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <48134 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#48134: [External] : bug#48134: When sitting on top of a M-x item in the manual
Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 23:23:33 +0000

> > 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.

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.

> Fortunately, `M-x M-n RET' already pulls that text
> into the minibuffer.

What text?  Just a command name at point?

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.

(Some of them are available with `M-.' in Icicles.
You can see them described in the doc string Eli
so objected to being shown.)

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