From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-x C-f in two frames -> "user minibuffer while in Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:57:08 +0200 Organization: sometimes Message-ID: <7eoe9f2duj.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120729536 8755 80.91.229.2 (7 Jul 2005 09:45:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 09:45:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 07 11:45:35 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqSwG-0005v6-QH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:45:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqSxc-0006Et-U8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 05:46:24 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.belwue.de!LF.net!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ada2.unipv.it Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1120726628 28921 193.204.44.145 (7 Jul 2005 08:57:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 08:57:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:s30MQbJQ3PCY0AGtJ/wFZrbn+2c= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132347 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27825 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27825 don provan 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