From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Avoiding moving point into minibuffer prompt area Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:07:57 -0700 Message-ID: References: <86wtmlveuc.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124249542 32233 80.91.229.2 (17 Aug 2005 03:32:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 03:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 17 05:32:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5Ee4-0000RK-0X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 05:31:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5EhV-0003yQ-TB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:34:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5Ee6-000280-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:31:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5Ee4-00026n-4Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:31:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5EbO-0000g2-Vw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [148.87.122.33] (helo=rgminet04.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1E5EXE-0007NK-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:24:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.50]) by rgminet04.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id j7H381qU032353; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:08:02 -0600 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j7H381X6009203; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:08:01 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-73-42.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.73.42]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id j7H37wCZ009188 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:08:01 -0600 Original-To: "Randal L. Schwartz" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <86wtmlveuc.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:42164 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42164 I'd still be interested in knowing what your text-copying use case is. I sometimes use command history to turn an interactive command into a piece of lisp code to use later, or at least study how it was invoked, or reinvoke it on a variable instead of a literal string. Sorry, it's unclear to me what you are saying. Could you elaborate or be more specific? How does putting the cursor in the minibuffer-prompt area help you - how do you use that feature?