Re: Avoiding moving point into minibuffer prompt area

[David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>]

On 16 Aug 2005, at 05:51, Drew Adams wrote:

> And a question - ignore, if this has already been beaten to death -
> shouldn't "inviolable" be the default value? A novice might get  
> confused and
> not know about the option to make the text inviolable;

Yes, I agree: it should be default. I used to be first confused, then  
annoyed when it happened repeatedly (I delete text pretty often  
that's in the minibuffer, and then I accidentally get into the  
prompt), so I set 'read-only' (similar to inviolable, i guess) as a  
default in Aquamacs.

> a veteran is more
> likely to try to copy prompt text and to discover the open-sesame  
> option, if
> it is locked by default.

Luc says he likes to copy the prompt when reporting bugs etc., but  
who is Emacs catering for? Its own developers? Its bug-reporting  
users? Or users that actually do productive use? The latter should  
probably be the default assumption, since it agrees with what most  
people do with it...