From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Handling minibuffers in several mini-windows
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:06:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z45vvwr.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X/iqS+2hZEgebHbf@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Fri, 8 Jan 2021 18:54:03 +0000")
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> My proposal (which I've already implemented and tried out, though not
> published at all), is that
> (i) it should be possible to type into, and edit text in any visible
> minibuffer;
> (ii) it should be possible to terminate (by RET `exit-minibuffer') only
> the most deeply nested MB. The attempt elsewhere should display an
> error message, leaving the MBs unchanged;
> (iii) it should be possible to abort (with C-g `abort-recursive-edit'),
> any minibuffer. This will have the effect of aborting all more deeply
> nested MBs at the same time.
>
> What do people think about this?
i and ii sound good to me. I'm not sure about iii -- I think trying it
out and see what it feels like in practice might be a good idea, though.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-10 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-08 18:54 Handling minibuffers in several mini-windows Alan Mackenzie
2021-01-08 20:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-10 0:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-01-10 12:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-01-10 12:38 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-01-11 14:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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