Re: Prepend an indicator to the minibuffer prompt to show you canuse completion

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Drew Adams wrote:
>     first, i would prefer to use a new indicator in the fringe, when the
>     fringe is present - seems like this would be a nice use of that real
>     estate, more suitable than precious minibuffer content space.  the new
>     cue would display with the fringe top-of-buffer signal, when people
>     use that, but that's generally redundant in the minibuffer, since it
>     always has a prompt on the first line, and usually contains one or
>     just a few lines.
> 
> I and, I think, many others, turn fringe off. Hate it; don't need it.
> 
> I think one or two characters of minibuffer space is not too much to
> sacrifice for this feature, and it would be optional, in any case.

My preference is the same as Ken's, for a fringe indicator.  But if this
feature is only available by enlarging the minibuffer prompt, I wouldn't
use it.  How about tweaking the face used to display the prompt, e.g. 
its foreground color or font weight?

-- 
Kevin