From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ortmann@isl.net: asymmetries and contradictions in shell navigation using C-a and C-e on a prompt line]
Date: 19 Mar 2002 00:39:24 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873cyxanrn.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5xd6y1aorh.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk>
storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> What happens if you have two fields next to each other -- in that
> case, the inside of one field is the outside the other field - and
> vice versa.
This is not a problem. The only important case is where one of these
commands would from `outside' to `inside' in a way that's counter-intuitive.
> > Unfortunately, the most common use of fields currently is in the
> > minibuffer, and it uses a `nil' field property as the `inside'
> > (and puts a non-nil field property on the prompt, to distinguish it).
>
> Which indicates to me that your proposed solutions isn't the right one.
Why?
> But we already handle the minibuffer correctly, so this
> will continue to work
No, the minibuffer suffers from the same `problem' that comint does.
It's just not commonly enountered by users, because they usually don't
move into the prompt.
> if we don't start messing up the existing movement & killing
> functions!!!
What are you talking about?
-Miles
--
`The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement'
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[not found] <200201210941.g0L9f9s14343@aztec.santafe.edu>
2002-03-18 2:39 ` [ortmann@isl.net: asymmetries and contradictions in shell navigation using C-a and C-e on a prompt line] Miles Bader
2002-03-18 15:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-18 15:39 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-03-18 16:59 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-19 0:02 ` Miles Bader
2002-03-19 9:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-19 9:24 ` Miles Bader
2002-03-19 8:44 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-18 20:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-19 0:18 ` Miles Bader
2002-03-20 5:11 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-20 5:41 ` Miles Bader
2002-03-20 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-20 6:38 ` Miles Bader
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