From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Avoiding moving point into minibuffer prompt area Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:27:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4302302D.8070003@student.lu.se> References: <8FEF3071-0670-4746-9B5F-91BC451F946A@gmail.com> <200508161757.j7GHvjh01651@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124217231 19122 80.91.229.2 (16 Aug 2005 18:33:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david.reitter@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 16 20:33:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E56FC-00070Q-37 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:33:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E56Ic-0002Ek-GU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:36:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E56Ft-0001Zb-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:33:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E56Fi-0001Sk-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:33:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E56Fi-0001R0-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:33:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E56Q0-0004w6-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:44:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.200.157) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B9371700890950; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:28:01 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200508161757.j7GHvjh01651@raven.dms.auburn.edu> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:42139 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42139 Luc Teirlinck wrote: >David Reitter wrote: > > (I delete text pretty often that's in the minibuffer, and then I > accidentally get into the prompt), so I set 'read-only' (similar to > inviolable, i guess) as a default in Aquamacs. > >No, read-only prevents you from erasing the text, not from moving into it. >read-only _is_ on by default. > > Which is a big difference compared to shell buffers where you can erase the prompt. That too was a surprise to me in the beginning. How the prompt is handled does not seem so consistent as you maybe hastily thought before. So I must say this area is prone to misunderstanding. I still believe the best is to make it simple for beginners and not let the point move in to the minibuffer prompt.