no more minibuffer lines up in smoke

no more minibuffer lines up in smoke

[Dan Jacobson]

Please rig it so that anything written into the minibuffer ends up
somewhere one can check later.

There are too many programs that ask you a question, you say yes, then
want to check what was just asked, but there is no record stored, even
a few bytes, in any buffer, even "hidden" ones, and of course not in
*Messages*.

If you can keep a lossage of what I typed for 100 strokes, then you
can also keep a record of the last 100 lines written to the
minibuffer.

One would think that polite programs' minibuffer messages would end up
in *Messages*, but there are too many ways to "get around that".

So, rig the final thing that puts chars into the minibuffer to keep a
copy for a few lines.  Don't depend on programmers voluntarily making
sure all goes also to *Messages*.

So far there have been hundreds of times where I want to check what it
just said a moment before, but nowhere in mighty emacs is that
important info kept.

Re: no more minibuffer lines up in smoke

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Please rig it so that anything written into the minibuffer ends up
> somewhere one can check later.


DIY:

(add-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook
           (lambda () (message "%s" (buffer-string))))


-- 
Kevin Rodgers