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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ortmann@isl.net: asymmetries and contradictions in shell navigation using C-a and C-e on a prompt line]
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:07:31 -0700 (MST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203182007.g2IK7VK08811@wijiji.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buou1rey4yg.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (message from Miles Bader on 18 Mar 2002 11:39:35 +0900)

    The reason it does this is because the minibuffer input field is at the
    end of the buffer, and can have a size of zero.  Thus any inserted
    characters will have nil values for their properties, including the
    `field' property.  Also, it's important that the field code recognize
    that there's an empty field there, so that commands such as C-a don't
    act wierdly when nothing's been typed into the minibuffer. 

    However, I think this can be handled by making the minibuffer input use
    an overlay for the input field, instead of relying on the nil-properties
    inserted at the end of the buffer.

That part bothers me.  Can we assign a coherent meaning to a field
property on an empty overlay?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-18 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200201210941.g0L9f9s14343@aztec.santafe.edu>
2002-03-18  2:39 ` [ortmann@isl.net: asymmetries and contradictions in shell navigation using C-a and C-e on a prompt line] Miles Bader
2002-03-18 15:17   ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-18 15:39     ` Miles Bader
2002-03-18 16:59       ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-19  0:02         ` Miles Bader
2002-03-19  9:07           ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-19  9:24             ` Miles Bader
2002-03-19  8:44     ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-18 20:07   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-03-19  0:18     ` Miles Bader
2002-03-20  5:11       ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-20  5:41         ` Miles Bader
2002-03-20  6:30           ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-20  6:38             ` Miles Bader

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