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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#34939: Some minibuffer behaviour is annoying |
Date: | Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:57:12 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 |
On 21.03.2019 21:13, pinkanon pinkanon wrote:
Hi! I have two issues regarding minibuffer usage: (1) when I press backspace and the prompt is empty, minibuffer tells me "Text is read-only". You. Don't. Say.
Agreed.
Proposed solution: while it can be argued that this is an OK default, it would be great to have an option to show nothing instead.
As a "solution", patch would be better.Off the top of my head, I don't see a simple fix while the prompt is still implemented using the read-only text property.
(2) When I try to quit and some buffer is unchanged, I get the usual deal asking me what I want. The problem I have here [in addition to the problem discussed in (1), adapted to this case: "Type C-h for help."] is that I must use C-g, but not good old escape. Proposed solution: make [an option to be able to] ESC any minibuffer prompt. In this particular case, maybe ESC could be added to one of the possible response options, but that's an implementation detail as far as I am concerned, a regular user. Here are some other people trying to solve this problem with no luck. https://superuser.com/questions/795763/how-to-make-emacs-quit-the-minibuffer-with-one-press-of-esc
Probably no simple way to make ESC work that way. The answer gives a hint why. But you could go the ergoemacs way, I guess.
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