Re: Avoiding moving point into minibuffer prompt area

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Emilio Lopes wrote:

>Richard M Stallman writes:
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>>    I think it is quite confusing that you can move the point into
>>    the prompt area in the minibuffer. Why don't we use something
>>    like the code below to avoid this:
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>>If we want to make it impossible to move point into the prompt, it
>>should suffice to give it an intangible property of t, right?
>>People could try that and see if they like it.  However, we've
>>already seen one person say that he finds it useful to move into the
>>prompt.
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>I think the situation is somewhat similar with the case of e-mail
>headers in Rmail.  Having used fascist e-mail clients before I was
>scared that with Emacs you could indeed *change* the headers yourself
>and maybe even break something.  But with time I learned to appreciate
>the extra power.
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>I myself don't move into the prompt that often, but I like to know
>that I can if I need to, without having to hunt for some newly added
>user option.
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>So, comfort and ease-of-use, yes; restriction and over-protection, no.
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> -ECL
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But you are asking for protection (for yourself) aren't you? ;-)

I will not answer on the list since Richard asked us not to discuss this 
their any more.

Best wishes,
Lennart