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: Should minibuffer prompt be made intangible by default? (Was debbugs 21874: 25.0.50; point-entered no longer works) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:38:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459427946 5815 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2016 12:39:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:39:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 31 14:38:51 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 1albs0-0002YD-1s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:38:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60161 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1albrw-0001Ji-CA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:38:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49611) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1albri-0001JF-4b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:38:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1albrd-0008VX-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:38:22 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56262) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1albrd-0008VG-Pb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:38:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1albrc-0002PM-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:38:16 +0200 Original-Received: from 45.72.141.202 ([45.72.141.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:38:16 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 45.72.141.202 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:38:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.72.141.202 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F4fUWVmhpfJXQxZe3ePfYJqQbvc= 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: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202496 Archived-At: > ;; (car (cdr (car (get ..)))) -> (read-only t face minibuffer-prompt) ^^^^^^^^ This "car(cdr" should be spelled "eval" (there's no guarantee that the arg has always the shape (quote ...something..)). > (custom-set-variables '(minibuffer-prompt-properties Don't do that. There should only ever be one call to custom-set-variables, auto-written by Custom itself. As soon as you move away from that, you're entering dangerous territory. You should probably use customize-set-variable instead. Tho I'd personally recommend that if you don't want to use the Custom UI, then don't use Custom from Elisp either, and just use straight: (setq minibuffer-prompt-properties (append ... minibuffer-prompt-properties)) (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook #'cursor-sensor-mode) -- Stefan