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Wilfred Hughes

Nov 6, 2019 at 23:16

Reading the future with Emacs, or why M-n is useful in the minibuffer: https://engineering.collbox.co/post/working-faster-in-emacs-by-reading-the-future/ (An excellent Emacs tip, which works in deadgrep too!)

Working Faster in Emacs by Reading the "Future"

There are a number of times when using Emacs that a command asks for an input string—e.g. a search string—and offers an intelligent default value you can accept simply by hitting RET. That’s fantastic when the default is exactly what you want, but what about when it’s almost what you want? Do you really have to manually type out the whole string? This is Emacs after all!