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: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:32:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200803201508.m2KF8C0S002150@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <006301c88aa9$ffafda40$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <200803201704.m2KH4HVt023198@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <47E37419.6080708@swipnet.se> <18404.11482.3867.697294@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <47E430B0.4080408@gmail.com> <18404.12883.894990.383516@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87iqzfczrr.fsf@jurta.org> <47FC8E8F.1020002@swipnet.se> <18429.45504.593032.149745@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <47FDC15B.4060604@swipnet.se> <008c01c89b26$7bf38ac0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207852368 15826 80.91.229.12 (10 Apr 2008 18:32:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:32:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Juri Linkov' , 'Nick Roberts' , =?iso-8859-1?Q?'Jan_Dj=1FFFFFFFrv'?= , "'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 10 20:33:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jk1aA-0000p6-Hq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:33:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jk1ZW-0003tL-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:32:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jk1ZS-0003s1-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:32:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jk1ZQ-0003qU-Na for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:32:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jk1ZQ-0003qK-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:32:24 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jk1ZQ-0000M9-5y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:32:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-124.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.124]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m3AIWMrU025801 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:32:22 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B3E34B46FF; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:32:23 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <008c01c89b26$7bf38ac0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:18:16 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 0 Rules triggered X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:94889 Archived-At: >> But the main thing is to avoid minibuffer expansion and shrinkage. > Why is that the main thing? Why is that even a goal? Because some people don't like it or because it sometimes can't be done. I think this is a very good change, Stefan