From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-file and backward-kill-word Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:26:36 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <16746.62602.225874.363145@zarniwoop.ms25.local> <200410120059.i9C0x3O16263@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <878yachviv.fsf@wesley.springies.com> <16748.21375.960739.994780@zarniwoop.ms25.local> <200410130155.i9D1tT228811@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87y8iafiu7.fsf@wesley.springies.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097800122 19457 80.91.229.6 (15 Oct 2004 00:28:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:28:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 15 02:28:38 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CIFxV-00040C-00 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:28:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CIG4c-0001tt-OQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:35:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CIG2w-0001Pq-8s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:34:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CIG2u-0001Og-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CIG2u-0001Oc-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CIFvZ-0005hJ-2W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CIFvY-0006PA-B0; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:26:36 -0400 Original-To: Alan Shutko In-reply-to: <87y8iafiu7.fsf@wesley.springies.com> (message from Alan Shutko on Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:45:20 -0500) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28404 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28404 That's correct. However, I've had this setting since Emacs started letting one enter the prompt, and I've never missed the ability to kill anything in the prompt. ISTR that the main reason for including the prompt in the buffer was for the sake of simplifying redisplay. It no longer has to treat the prompt as a special case, and other special cases such as a prompt longer than one line now work. The ability to move into the prompt sort of followed from that. If making it in general impossible to move into the prompt makes things less confusing in general for users, it might be a good idea.