From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Potential problem of minibuffer-message
Date: 11 Apr 2003 13:37:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buollyhwsws.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304110431.NAA18545@etlken.m17n.org>
Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
> > How about using an overlay with an `after-string' property, located at
> > the end of the minibuffer, for the minibuffer-message message itself?
> > Then there's no modification/insertion at all...
>
> Unfortunately, the cursor is shown after that `after-string'
> in that case.
Oh yeah, that !@#*& problem -- I ran in the same thing when I was trying
to do my `error messages don't obscure the users input' patch a long time
ago.
That behavior really should simply be fixed, it's stupid
(but unfortunately, not entirely trivial to fix either).
-Miles
--
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that
you do it." Mahatma Ghandi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-11 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-10 1:44 Potential problem of minibuffer-message Kenichi Handa
2003-04-10 13:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-11 2:22 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-11 2:38 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-11 4:31 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-11 4:37 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2003-04-11 4:53 ` overlay property `after-string' Kenichi Handa
2003-04-11 5:02 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-11 6:30 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-13 11:23 ` Potential problem of minibuffer-message Richard Stallman
2003-04-10 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
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