From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dynamic prompt Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 21:50:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336270279 23078 80.91.229.3 (6 May 2012 02:11:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 02:11:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 06 04:11:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1SQqwO-0007xJ-WB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 May 2012 04:11:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53856 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SQqgo-0004vF-UI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2012 21:55:10 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe12.iad.POSTED!00000000!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:P/VJhmlOLc6nEZJ9HkCkBXuWRrU= Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@UsenetServer.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 01:50:51 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 1037 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192321 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84729 Archived-At: > I'd like to have a prompt that shows the number of characters entered > in the response > Prompt (3): bla > Prompt (7): bla bla > Is that in any way possible? Of course: the prompt is normal text present in the (mini)buffer, which itself is a perfectly normal buffer (tho displayed in a special (mini)window) and you can edit it like any other buffer text. Stefan