From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Avoiding moving point into minibuffer prompt area Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:51:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <43014167.5000109@student.lu.se> <200508160413.j7G4Dt106348@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <4301AC2B.7040104@student.lu.se> <87ll3288tb.fsf@jurta.org> <4301C4C5.5020608@student.lu.se> <43026578.70207@student.lu.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124294890 20208 80.91.229.2 (17 Aug 2005 16:08:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:08:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 17 18:08:07 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5QQG-0004mD-4r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:05:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5QTj-0004Tq-3e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:09:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5QPK-0002LH-Lf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:04:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5QPH-0002Jj-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:04:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5QPG-000294-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:04:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E5QVx-0006Cp-QK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:11:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1E5QCr-0005Fv-Aq; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:52:02 -0400 Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-reply-to: <43026578.70207@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:15:20 +0200) 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:42187 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42187 you at a minibuffer prompt just hold down backspace to delete entered characters (this is quite common behaviour in situations like that) then Emacs will delete all characters up to the prompt and then show "Text is read-only". Now I understand the issue. What change could we make? We could change the error message to say "Prompt is read-only". Would that make it clearer, do you think?