From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: New symptom and code Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:15:57 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40EAEC5D.8040603@yahoo.com> References: <0ivGc.18253$T72.289@fe2.texas.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089137906 2697 80.91.224.253 (6 Jul 2004 18:18:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:18:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 06 20:18:22 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 1BhuWL-00086m-00 for ; Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:18:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BhuYN-0002Ta-Of for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:20:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de bRz8NK99LtR4UEetRlTC9Qg0ZZQxu+Hnh481DxF4pkteDdec0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124157 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19488 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19488 David Vanderschel wrote: > I should have mentioned that I am using the minibuffer primarily so > that I can get a temporary multi-line display. Otherwise, I could > have used message. I am not letting the user edit in the minibuffer. > I am just showing him some data. The single character he types is > treated by my program as a command, which then modifies the display. I don't understand. What's wrong with (message "First line\nSecond line\nThird line") -- Kevin Rodgers