From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Recent commit modifying mark-whole-buffer (master/aeb613ea95b7970e66d663ec5cba54e9ec0528fa) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 10:15:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lh3x4dkb.fsf@gnus.org> <83wpngx69z.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462025737 16851 80.91.229.3 (30 Apr 2016 14:15:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 14:15:37 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 30 16:15:28 2016 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 1awVg8-0002vH-AN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 16:15:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58568 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awVg1-0001uu-55 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 10:15:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awVfs-0001eZ-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 10:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awVfg-00010b-IS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 10:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45717) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awVfg-0000xh-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 10:15:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1awVfW-0002g8-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 16:14:50 +0200 Original-Received: from c-24-91-183-66.hsd1.ct.comcast.net ([24.91.183.66]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 16:14:50 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by c-24-91-183-66.hsd1.ct.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 16:14:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-91-183-66.hsd1.ct.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OWTVICupTuFmjTh7Ulew1GcHDi8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:203451 Archived-At: > Emacs always allowed one to enter the prompt, if one wanted badly enough. Actually, IIRC the ability to move into the prompt was introduced with Emacs-21's new redisplay code. Before that, the minibuffer prompt was implemented by ad-hoc code in the redisplay (i.e. it did not actually exist in the minibuffer's buffer). But, admittedly, Emacs-21 is pretty far in the past. Stefan