From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: How does one tell when a command is executed from the minibuffer? Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:57:25 +0000 Message-ID: <20141129185724.GA2817@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417287508 15306 80.91.229.3 (29 Nov 2014 18:58:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:58:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 29 19:58:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XunDp-0005It-MT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:58:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XunDp-0002T4-2e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:58:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XunDU-0002Sh-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:58:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XunDN-0002wZ-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:58:00 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:45760 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XunDN-0002wN-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:57:53 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 32614 invoked by uid 3782); 29 Nov 2014 18:57:50 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9519A1F.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.154.31]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:57:49 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 2875 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Nov 2014 18:57:25 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178474 Archived-At: Hello, Emacs. How does one tell when a command is executed from the minibuffer, e.g. M-: (foo) , as contrasted with executing it from a file, e.g. by loading that file, or with C-M-x or C-x C-e? Something like (current-buffer) ought to do it, but `current-buffer' "lies" when the current buffer is actually the minibuffer. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).