From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: jdsmith@as.arizona.edu, monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu,
miles@lsi.nec.co.jp, simon.marshall@misys.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: comint read-only prompt
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:12:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020820211243.GA28081@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200208201721.g7KHLcb09801@wijiji.santafe.edu>
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:21:38AM -0600, Richard Stallman wrote:
> One feature I wanted was for
> older prompts *not* to be read-only.
>
> It seems rather inconsistent to me to make the newest prompt read-only
> and not the other prompts.
It's an inconistency that probably doesn't matter to users.
The `current' prompt is clearly different than others, and far, far, more
likely to be inadvertently modified. Given the annoyance that read-only past
prompts could cause, and the fact that they are very unlikely to need
protection, I think this split is a good one.
-Miles
--
P.S. All information contained in the above letter is false,
for reasons of military security.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-20 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-19 8:24 comint read-only prompt Marshall, Simon
2002-08-19 10:59 ` Miles Bader
2002-08-19 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-19 15:57 ` JD Smith
2002-08-19 23:45 ` Miles Bader
2002-08-20 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-21 0:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-21 15:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-21 0:11 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-20 17:21 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-20 18:03 ` JD Smith
2002-08-20 21:17 ` Miles Bader
2002-08-20 22:01 ` JD Smith
2002-08-21 0:18 ` Miles Bader
2002-08-21 1:24 ` JD Smith
2002-08-21 1:36 ` Miles Bader
2002-08-21 15:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-20 18:36 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-08-20 21:12 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-08-20 23:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-08-21 11:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-22 1:57 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-22 2:21 ` JD Smith
2002-08-22 2:35 ` Miles Bader
2002-08-24 2:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-19 23:41 ` Miles Bader
2002-08-19 20:46 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-21 0:23 ` Noah Friedman
2002-08-21 0:23 ` Noah Friedman
2002-08-21 1:21 ` Miles Bader
2002-08-21 1:38 ` Miles Bader
2002-08-21 1:32 ` JD Smith
2002-08-21 15:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-22 1:21 ` Miles Bader
2002-08-22 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-24 2:32 ` Richard Stallman
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