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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: feature request: indicator of minibuffer-recursion depth
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:38:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85wtewf3oq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoveugjbv1.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:28:18 +0900")

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

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>> The minibuffer does not have a mode line.  And if we want to avoid
>> confusion, putting the indicator somewhere far away from the
>> minibuffer would not help.  I think the minibuffer prompt a better
>> place.  And using the same "recursive" indicator as recursive edits do
>> in the mode line is sensible as well in my book.
>
> I don't think it's trivial to modify the prompt like that though -- in
> most cases, the minibuffer prompt is just a part of the minbuffer, and
> blindly modifying it may screw other things up.

Well, there are things like minibuffer-electric-default-mode already
fiddling with the minibuffer prompt, so it would not seem like that
would be inattainable.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-15  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-14 17:57 feature request: indicator of minibuffer-recursion depth Drew Adams
2006-03-14 18:13 ` Masatake YAMATO
2006-03-14 18:19   ` Drew Adams
2006-03-14 21:59     ` David Kastrup
2006-03-15  9:28       ` Miles Bader
2006-03-15  9:38         ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-03-15 10:15           ` Miles Bader
2006-03-16  2:46             ` Miles Bader
2006-03-16 16:51               ` Drew Adams
2006-03-17  2:29                 ` Miles Bader
2006-03-16 18:44               ` Edward O'Connor
2006-03-16 21:35               ` Kim F. Storm
2006-03-16 23:16                 ` Drew Adams
2006-03-16 23:39                   ` Kim F. Storm
2006-03-16 23:56                     ` Drew Adams
2006-03-17  2:37                 ` Miles Bader
2006-03-18  8:44                 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-20  2:39                   ` Miles Bader
2006-03-21  1:01                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-06 11:29                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 14:37                       ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-15 15:52                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 16:27                           ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-15 17:41                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 18:39                               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-15 18:48                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 17:08                                 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-06-15 19:41                             ` Drew Adams
2007-06-15 19:47                               ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 20:42                                 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-15 23:20                                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16  1:17                                     ` Drew Adams
2007-06-16  1:30                                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16  5:40                                         ` Drew Adams
2007-06-16 11:32                                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 12:47                                             ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-16 14:36                                             ` Drew Adams
2007-06-15 22:45                             ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 23:10                               ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-15 23:19                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 23:34                                   ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-15 23:47                                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 23:57                                       ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-16  0:24                                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 18:50                                 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-15 23:41                 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-17  1:41                   ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-17  8:33                     ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-17 10:01                       ` Mathias Dahl
2006-11-19  1:25                       ` Drew Adams
2006-11-19  1:52                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-19 15:48                           ` Drew Adams
2006-11-19 16:19                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-19 20:19                               ` Drew Adams
2006-11-19 22:02                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-20  2:22                                   ` Drew Adams
2006-08-05 22:04                   ` Drew Adams
2006-03-15  9:44         ` David Kastrup
2006-03-16 10:32           ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-15 15:59         ` Drew Adams
2006-03-15 18:30           ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-15 19:18         ` David Reitter
2006-03-15 19:52           ` Drew Adams
2006-03-17 16:32           ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-17 17:17             ` David Kastrup
2006-03-17 22:02               ` Kim F. Storm
2006-03-18 18:29               ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-17 18:06             ` Drew Adams
2006-03-18 18:30               ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-15 15:59       ` Drew Adams
2006-03-15 16:19     ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-15 17:01       ` Drew Adams
2006-03-15 20:20 ` Richard Stallman

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