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: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:12:27 +0200 Message-ID: <430361EB.3050806@student.lu.se> References: <43014167.5000109@student.lu.se> <200508160413.j7G4Dt106348@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <4301AC2B.7040104@student.lu.se> <87ll3288tb.fsf@jurta.org> <4301C4C5.5020608@student.lu.se> <43026578.70207@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124295349 21710 80.91.229.2 (17 Aug 2005 16:15:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:15:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 17 18:15:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5QYn-0007vd-BM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:14:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5QcG-0006U4-Ks for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:18:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5QbR-0006Sl-Lv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5QbQ-0006SD-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5QbQ-0006Rv-NX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:17:20 -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 1E5QmW-0007kx-Ex; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:28:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.200.233) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B93717008C5F69; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:12:31 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: 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:42188 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42188 Richard M. Stallman wrote: > you at a minibuffer prompt just hold down backspace to delete entered > characters (this is quite common behaviour in situations like that) then > Emacs will delete all characters up to the prompt and then show "Text is > read-only". > >Now I understand the issue. What change could we make? > >We could change the error message to say "Prompt is read-only". >Would that make it clearer, do you think? > > Thanks, but as I tried to explain I do not think it is the best to do so. My suggestion is two make two changes: 1) Change the default for Inviolable to on. 2) Do not show the message "Prompt is read-only" when Inviolable is on. It is just disturbing and unexpected in my opinion. It is simply the usual behavior for most applications that you are not able to delete the prompt.