Re: C-x C-f in two frames -> "user minibuffer while in

[Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>]

don provan <dprovan@comcast.net> writes:

> Has anyone come up with any ways the recursive commands could be
> better, or is it pretty much accepted that there's nothing that could
> be done to improve them?

one idea is to modify `mode-line-format' to indicate presence, level,
or stack contents, of recursion.

  presence:       R
  level:          RRR   (or maybe R3)
  stack contents: (find-file find-file find-file)

alternatively, borrow something from the recursive editing indicator
(normally square braces around the major and minor mode info).

nothing is univerally "pretty much accepted" (except death and taxes,
but i hear emacs and the fsf avoid these, respectively, somehow :-).

thi