Re: feature request: indicator of minibuffer-recursion depth

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> writes:

[...]

> Given that the default is to disable recursive minibuffer use
> entirely, and the people who intentionally enable such usage tend to
> be more knowledgeable users (and thus less likely to be confused by
> recursive minibuffers), it seems that such an indicator would be of
> somewhat limited applicability.

Uh, what?  We are not talking about

[You are in recursive minibuffer mode! Press C-g to exit it]

We are talking about

[[M-x]] ...

You already need to have a clue about the concept to interpret that.

Anyway, don't be too sure that everybody with disabled recursive
minibuffer has intentionally done so: most people's dotemacs is pasted
together from multiple sources without a clue.

One should probably place an electronic signature into dotemacs files
and prohibit people from using any code they have not entered all by
themselves.

But I guess this scheme would not be compatible with GPL3.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum