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Article #189339Re: feature request - extended execution using initials
From: Mike Williams
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 21:37
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 21:37
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+-- In article <1991Feb20.002312.21497@informix.com> erik@infmx.informix.com (Erik Hennum) writes:
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| Currently, execute-extended-command qualifies each word of
| a command separately from left to right.
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| It would be very nice to have an execution command that would
| let you supply the initials of each word.
Dave Gillespie's partial completion package gives you this kind of
functionality. It's available for anonymous FTP from
tut.cis.ohio-state.edu ...
+ partial-comp (1.04)
+ 90-07-02
+ David Gillespie, <daveg@csvax.caltech.edu>
+ tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages/partial-comp.el.Z
+ Extended completion for the Emacs minibuffer
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