From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#34939: Some minibuffer behaviour is annoying Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:32:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1879851553195601@myt3-2475c4d2af83.qloud-c.yandex.net> <0b53220d-e11f-f0a7-5ed0-33ebc0c251b6@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="142291"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: pinkanon.pinkanon@yandex.ru, 34939@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 23 03:33:13 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h7WTB-000alE-5s for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 03:33:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37594 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7WTA-0000p5-6e for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:33:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7WT2-0000lU-Eq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:33:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7WT0-0005cF-Ub for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:33:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:41321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7WT0-0005an-NV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h7WT0-0000II-FA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:33:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 02:33:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 34939 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 34939-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B34939.15533083381073 (code B ref 34939); Sat, 23 Mar 2019 02:33:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 34939) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Mar 2019 02:32:18 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54865 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h7WSI-0000HF-B1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:32:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49898) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h7WSG-0000Gz-EX for 34939@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55996) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7WS9-000369-P1; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:32:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h7WS7-0005Cr-9k; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:32:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <0b53220d-e11f-f0a7-5ed0-33ebc0c251b6@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:57:12 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:156641 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > (1) when I press backspace and the prompt is empty, minibuffer tells me > > "Text is read-only". You. Don't. Say. > Agreed. This error message may be surprising, but it is not actually wrong. The minibuffer prompt is text in the minibiffer. You can move point through it. Kill commands will not delete it, but they will put it in the kill ring. We could add special-case code to handle that specific case differently, perhaps with a different error message that won't seem strange. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)