From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Inconsistent behavior in minibuffer Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:01:29 +0300 Message-ID: References: <4693AE6D.7070702@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184097697 26210 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2007 20:01:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Will Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 10 22:01:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I8Ltu-0008Ed-So for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:01:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8Ltu-0006fu-E6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8Ltr-0006db-Fy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:01:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8Ltp-0006cs-Jg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:01:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8Ltp-0006cn-FA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:01:29 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I8Lto-0005Ow-P4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:01:29 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-199-29.inter.net.il [83.130.199.29]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id IHU25254 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:01:25 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4693AE6D.7070702@gmx.de> (message from Will on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:06:05 +0200) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16129 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:06:05 +0200 > From: Will > > if I open a file C-x C-f > then C-0 C-k deletes the path but not "Find file". Right, I see this too. > but C-a jumps back to the Column 0 (before "Find file") It does? I don't see this on my system. Could you please try this in "emacs -Q"? If the problem goes away, there's something in your .emacs init file that causes this. > In a larger context it is inconsistent that a buffer can be read-only > (cf. "Find File" prompt) and editable (cf. ) at the same time. Well, the idea is that we allow to edit everything except the prompt. Sounds pretty much consistent to me; other GUI programs behave similarly. The fact that the minibuffer is just another Emacs buffer, albeit a special one, and a buffer is normally either entirely read-only or entirely editable, is not the issue here, IMO, since typing at the prompt is a very special situation.