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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>, 38519@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38519: minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode with enable-recursive-minibuffers
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 09:00:32 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <603be961-d5be-41df-b9a1-d0790ae70e8c@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k177emxq.fsf@mail.linkov.net>

> A recent discussion about enable-recursive-minibuffers reminded
> that minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode should be enabled when
> enable-recursive-minibuffers is non-nil.  It's unusable
> without the depth indication that is more error-prone.
> 
> It simultaneously enabling minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode
> after enable-recursive-minibuffers becomes non-nil is not easy
> to implement, then at least these two should mention each other
> in the manual.

It's a good question.

1. I agree that the docs should mention each other.
And the doc strings already do that:

`C-h v enable-recursive-minibuffers' says:
  Also see `minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode',
  which may be handy if this variable is non-nil.

`C-h f minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode' says:
  This is only useful if
  `enable-recursive-minibuffers' is non-nil.

But this hasn't yet been done in the manuals:
(elisp) `Recursive Mini' and (emacs) `Minibuffer
Edit' cover `enable-recursive-minibuffers', but
`minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode' is mentioned
nowhere, so far.

2. I agree that `minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode'
is useful when `enable-recursive-minibuffers'
is non-nil (generally and only).

3. I think I disagree that there should be
some kind of hard coupling between the two,
which would prevent users from getting
`enable-recursive-minibuffers' without
`minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode'.

It would be OK to automatically turn OFF
`minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode' when
`enable-recursive-minibuffers' is nil.  But
that's not necessary (it has no effect), so
it's not useful.

I don't think we should turn `m-d-i-m' ON
systematically when `e-r-m' is non-nil.  
That might be OK as a default behavior, but
we shouldn't impose it in a hard-coded way,
so that users have no recourse.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-08 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-07 23:27 bug#38519: minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode with enable-recursive-minibuffers Juri Linkov
2019-12-08 17:00 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-12-08 22:48   ` Juri Linkov
2021-06-14 14:34     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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