From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: per@starback.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
Stephen Eilert <spedrosa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Emacs for new users
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:35:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50911240935w516e2745tde9712cd37c9fa4b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87skc3g7f8.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> What I meant was that they should not be allowed to leave the
>> minibuffer and go to another window. This is similar to how many GUI
>> programs work.
>
> This is a limitation of other programs.
:-)
Or an inability of Emacs to guide users this way.
Actually this restriction is imposed when using y-or-n-p.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-24 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-23 16:37 Emacs for new users Per Starbäck
2009-11-23 16:59 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2009-11-23 18:47 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-23 20:49 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-26 22:35 ` Beeping (was: Emacs for new users) Juri Linkov
2009-11-26 23:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-27 4:12 ` Beeping Stefan Monnier
2009-11-27 6:48 ` Beeping Lennart Borgman
2009-11-27 19:25 ` Beeping Stefan Monnier
2009-11-27 20:25 ` Beeping Lennart Borgman
2009-11-27 23:12 ` Beeping Stefan Monnier
2009-11-27 23:15 ` Beeping Lennart Borgman
2009-11-28 1:49 ` Beeping Stefan Monnier
2009-11-28 2:47 ` Beeping Lennart Borgman
2009-11-23 17:05 ` Emacs for new users Stephen Eilert
2009-11-24 14:10 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-24 14:43 ` Renaud Casenave-Péré
2009-11-24 16:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-11-25 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-30 23:02 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-11-24 15:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-24 16:41 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-24 17:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-24 17:27 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-24 17:35 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-11-24 17:51 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-11-24 18:37 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-24 18:03 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-24 18:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-24 18:22 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-24 18:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-24 19:35 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-24 19:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-25 21:02 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-25 21:04 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-25 21:57 ` Fernando C.V.
2009-11-25 22:05 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-25 22:27 ` Fernando C.V.
2009-11-25 22:34 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-26 6:23 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-23 18:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-23 19:35 ` Les Harris
2009-11-23 20:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-23 21:04 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-23 21:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-23 21:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-23 22:05 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-30 22:55 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-11-30 23:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-12-01 9:13 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-12-01 10:13 ` Miles Bader
2010-11-13 19:14 ` separating CUA rectangles from CUA selection mode [was: Emacs for new users] Drew Adams
2009-11-23 21:16 ` Emacs for new users Stephen Eilert
2009-11-23 22:06 ` Per Starbäck
2009-11-23 22:43 ` Per Starbäck
2009-11-23 22:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-23 23:55 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-24 6:43 ` tomas
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