From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: feature request: indicator of minibuffer-recursion depth Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:44:35 +0100 Message-ID: <85slpkf3ek.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85mzfsk7qq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142415913 26610 80.91.229.2 (15 Mar 2006 09:45:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 15 10:45:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJSYt-0004Kb-6h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:44:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJSYs-0000Kq-Ja for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:44:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJSYe-0000Jl-B1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:44:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJSYd-0000If-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:44:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJSYd-0000IK-AT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:44:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FJSd1-0006ev-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:49:15 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FJSYc-0007t8-3W; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:44:42 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 774291C3DB49; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:44:35 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:28:18 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51653 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: [...] > Given that the default is to disable recursive minibuffer use > entirely, and the people who intentionally enable such usage tend to > be more knowledgeable users (and thus less likely to be confused by > recursive minibuffers), it seems that such an indicator would be of > somewhat limited applicability. Uh, what? We are not talking about [You are in recursive minibuffer mode! Press C-g to exit it] We are talking about [[M-x]] ... You already need to have a clue about the concept to interpret that. Anyway, don't be too sure that everybody with disabled recursive minibuffer has intentionally done so: most people's dotemacs is pasted together from multiple sources without a clue. One should probably place an electronic signature into dotemacs files and prohibit people from using any code they have not entered all by themselves. But I guess this scheme would not be compatible with GPL3. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum