From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Handling minibuffers in several mini-windows Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:38:24 +0000 Message-ID: References: <875z45vvwr.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31682"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 10 13:43:03 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kya3i-000892-SU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:43:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43144 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kya3i-0006Id-01 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50416) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyZzO-0004xm-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:38:35 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:11157 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyZzG-0005UQ-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:38:33 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 84518 invoked by uid 3782); 10 Jan 2021 12:38:24 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe15e6c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.94.108]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:38:24 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 7427 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Jan 2021 12:38:24 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <875z45vvwr.fsf@gnus.org> X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.1; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mail.muc.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:262839 Archived-At: Hello, Lars. On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 13:06:12 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Alan Mackenzie writes: > > My proposal (which I've already implemented and tried out, though not > > published at all), is that > > (i) it should be possible to type into, and edit text in any visible > > minibuffer; > > (ii) it should be possible to terminate (by RET `exit-minibuffer') only > > the most deeply nested MB. The attempt elsewhere should display an > > error message, leaving the MBs unchanged; > > (iii) it should be possible to abort (with C-g `abort-recursive-edit'), > > any minibuffer. This will have the effect of aborting all more deeply > > nested MBs at the same time. > > What do people think about this? > i and ii sound good to me. I'm not sure about iii -- I think trying it > out and see what it feels like in practice might be a good idea, though. An idea: in (iii), how about asking the user with yes-or-no-p before aborting more than one level? It's something which is unlikely to come up more than occasionally. > -- > (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) > bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).