From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: minibuffer-eldef Date: 03 Jun 2004 10:06:34 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040529213132.GA31322@fencepost> <873c5hd35q.fsf@mail.jurta.org> < 8765aadbgb.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <20040602071529.GA21505@fencepost> <7310.217.194.34.123.1086248381.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086250029 12813 80.91.224.253 (3 Jun 2004 08:07:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 08:07:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: wl@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 03 10:06:59 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BVnFb-0002ry-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:06:59 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BVnFa-0000Ia-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:06:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BVnFu-0001vQ-OF for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:07:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BVnFr-0001vG-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BVnFq-0001v4-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BVnFq-0001v1-Pr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BVnFM-0000UA-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:06:44 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BVnFF-0007QB-3W; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:06:37 -0400 Original-To: "Stephan Stahl" In-Reply-To: <7310.217.194.34.123.1086248381.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:24456 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24456 "Stephan Stahl" writes: > David Kastrup said: > > > If delete-selection-mode is > > enabled, the natural choice would be to just paste the default value > > into the text entry box and have it selected. > > That is a nice idea but it seems unnecessary because at most minibuffer > prompts M-n pastes the default value into the text entry box. "most". And it is something that a new user will never come across by chance. It's not even in the tutorial, and it is not bound to a key that a user would actually touch naturally. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum