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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 46583@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46583: 28.0.50; nested minibuffers
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:41:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1lCyXm-0004Nt-Cl@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9aqil93.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:48:08 +0200)

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  > The problem is that currently it's impossible for a command
  > to override enable-recursive-minibuffers only for its own use,
  > while keeping it disabled for more recursive minibuffer calls.

I see.  Thanks.

  > Maybe enable-recursive-minibuffers should support a numeric value
  > that is decremented in every recursive minibuffer calls
  > until reaching zero value that disables more recursive calls?

That should be a simple and adequate fix.

I don't see a need to support values greater than 1,
but I don't think they do any harm, and I see
no way to make this simpler by not supporting them.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-19  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-17  4:03 bug#46583: 28.0.50; nested minibuffers Richard Stallman
2021-02-17 18:48 ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-17 19:46   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-17 20:20     ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-17 20:35       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-18  9:39         ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-18 14:31           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-18 17:17             ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-19  5:41   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-06-17 15:23   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-17 19:20     ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-18 11:33       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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