From: Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Emacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How properly utilize the minibuffer and inactive minibuffer startup hooks?
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:51:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAjq1mfeOTEG8h=QENa3uK_xi6o=EyPKvUvW0Xn3xW-3H_ZqDw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pphexk1n.fsf@web.de>
Thank you everyone.
Michael, that R advice looks like it is for Emacs 24.4, and I look
forward to using it.
Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM
gcr@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
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On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Michael Heerdegen
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
>
> No, it's not your fault.
>
> As you presumably already found out, the first time you enter a
> minibuffer and minibuffer-setup-hook is run, the minibuffer is in
> fundamental-mode. The second time, however, it is in
> minibuffer-inactive-mode.
>
> `smartparens-mode` silently fails when the current major mode is in
> `sp-ignore-modes-list`. The default-value of `sp-ignore-modes-list` is
> '(minibuffer-inactive-mode) -- but I don't know why the smartparens
> developer decided to do so.
>
> So, you should get it work when you remove `minibuffer-inactive-mode`
> from `sp-ignore-modes-list` - at your own risk.
>
> Adding to minibuffer-setup-hook is enough, btw, pushing your setup
> function to minibuffer-inactive-mode-hook as well is not necessary.
>
>
> BTW, another, maybe a bit saner, approach is to write your own
> implementation of eval-expression. This is what I use, for example:
>
> ,----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | (progn
> |
> | (defvar my-read-expression-map
> | (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
> | (set-keymap-parent map read-expression-map)
> | (define-key map [(control ?g)] #'minibuffer-keyboard-quit)
> | (define-key map [up] nil)
> | (define-key map [down] nil)
> | map))
> |
> | (defun my-read--expression (prompt &optional initial-contents)
> | (let ((minibuffer-completing-symbol t))
> | (minibuffer-with-setup-hook
> | (lambda ()
> | (emacs-lisp-mode)
> | (use-local-map my-read-expression-map)
> | (setq font-lock-mode t)
> | (funcall font-lock-function 1))
> | (read-from-minibuffer prompt initial-contents
> | my-read-expression-map nil
> | 'read-expression-history))))
> |
> | (defun my-eval-expression (expression &optional arg)
> | (interactive (list (read (my-read--expression ""))
> | current-prefix-arg))
> | (if arg
> | (insert (pp-to-string (eval expression lexical-binding)))
> | (pp-display-expression (eval expression lexical-binding)
> | "*Pp Eval Output*"))))
> `----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> smartparens-mode is enabled automatically via emacs-lisp-mode.
>
> I also want to make the R command in the debugger behave the same
> way:
>
> ,----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | (advice-add
> | 'debugger-record-expression :around
> | (lambda (f exp) (interactive
> | (list (read (my-read--expression "Record Eval: "))))
> | (funcall f exp))
> | '((name . use-my-read--expression)))
> `----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Michael.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-11 0:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-08 20:07 How properly utilize the minibuffer and inactive minibuffer startup hooks? Grant Rettke
2014-07-09 22:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-11 0:51 ` Grant Rettke [this message]
[not found] <mailman.5105.1404869933.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-10 12:46 ` jduthen
2014-07-10 15:08 ` Grant Rettke
2014-07-10 16:09 ` Drew Adams
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