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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Need an enabler for a bad habit.
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:17:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eiavdm$5o6$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162399115.2545.43.camel@CASE>

William Case wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:05 +0100, Mathias Dahl wrote:
>> So, what you want is to be able to click in the echo area (the area
>> below the mode line) to get the "M-x prompt" (without needing to type
>> M-x), is it?
> 
> Essentially, yes.  But I have always thought what you have called the
> echo area was the mini-buffer in emacs and I don't even need the "M-x
> prompt".  I just want my cursor blinking in the very first field/column
> of the echo area.  I will type the command or accelerator keys that I
> need after the cursor is placed.  I would expect that the cursor would
> remain at the end of the command line until I push Enter.

The echo area and the minibuffer share that real estate on the screen
(as is explained in both the Echo Area and Minibuffer sections of the
manual :-)

Perhaps what you want can be provided via a minibuffer-only frame?

> If you open a virtual terminal and type a couple of shell commands, you
> can see what I mean.
> 
> I want to reconfirm, I am not advocating that others may want this or
> that it is something emacs should automatically do.  In fact, it is a
> waste of time and clicks and/or keystrokes.  However, intuitively, as in
> a command line on a terminal, I like to see that I have moved on to the
> next command by seeing the cursor at the beginning of a cleared command
> line (the command-to-be, so to speak), that I have a second or two to
> think about what exactly I am going to type next; and what I type next
> will be a command of some sort.
> 
> It is a habit that comes from 30 years of being a computer user.

My habits come from 23 years of being an Emacs user :-)

-- 
Kevin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-01 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.472.1162314011.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-31 17:34 ` Need an enabler for a bad habit Pascal Bourguignon
2006-11-01  9:33   ` Mathias Dahl
2006-11-01 11:25     ` William Case
     [not found]     ` <mailman.12.1162380544.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-01 15:05       ` Mathias Dahl
2006-11-01 16:38         ` William Case
2006-11-01 17:55           ` Peter Dyballa
2006-11-01 20:17           ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2006-11-01 23:12             ` William Case
2006-11-02 18:54               ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-11-01 23:28             ` William Case
     [not found]         ` <mailman.19.1162399165.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-01 16:45           ` David Kastrup
2006-11-01 17:03           ` Mathias Dahl
2006-11-03 17:59             ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <mailman.67.1162475959.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-02 14:23 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-11-02 16:31   ` Drew Adams
2006-11-02 14:00 martin rudalics
     [not found] <mailman.51.1162452995.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-02  9:42 ` Mathias Dahl
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-02  7:36 martin rudalics
2006-10-31 16:59 William Case
2006-11-03 19:30 ` William Case

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