From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John S. Yates, Jr." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: filling inside minibuffer behaves poorly Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:12:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ejsoxlu4.fsf@enterprisedb.com> <87zmb9bci3.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162662390 26140 80.91.229.2 (4 Nov 2006 17:46:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 17:46:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 04 18:46:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GgPao-0000QV-I4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:46:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GgPao-0004mW-4U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:46:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GgPWl-0000Sd-WB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:41:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GgPWk-0000RF-QF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:41:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GgPWk-0000R1-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:41:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [206.18.177.51] (helo=alnrmhc11.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GgPWj-0005JF-HV; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:41:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.yates-sheets.org (c-24-34-97-27.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[24.34.97.27]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc11) with SMTP id <20061104174151b1100fnlk2e>; Sat, 4 Nov 2006 17:41:51 +0000 Original-Received: from 10.1.1.4 ([10.1.1.4]) by mail.yates-sheets.org (WinRoute Pro 4.2.5) with SMTP; Sat, 4 Nov 2006 13:12:15 -0500 Original-Received: from dadold.yates-sheets.org ([10.1.1.12]) by [10.1.1.4] with SMTP (SpamPal v1.594) sender ; 04 Nov 2006 13:12:15 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 4.0/32.1071 X-HTMLM-Score: 0 X-SpamPal: PASS Address MX Failed X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:45:49 -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: , 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:61787 Archived-At: On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:37:01 -0500, you wrote: >That seems like a good argument, except for one thing: in most cases >the text isn't going anywhere that you'd care about filling, so the >main purpose of filling would be to make it look nice in the >minibuffer. And it looks nicer in the minibuffer the old way. How does tab expansion in the first line work? Does it consider column 1 the first character of the prompt or the first character following the prompt? /john