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

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
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: Sun, 02 May 2021 23:52:11 +0300

>> > 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?

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