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Re: Handling minibuffers in several mini-windows
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Handling minibuffers in several mini-windows |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:38:24 +0000 |
Hello, Lars.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 13:06:12 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> > My proposal (which I've already implemented and tried out, though not
> > published at all), is that
> > (i) it should be possible to type into, and edit text in any visible
> > minibuffer;
> > (ii) it should be possible to terminate (by RET `exit-minibuffer') only
> > the most deeply nested MB. The attempt elsewhere should display an
> > error message, leaving the MBs unchanged;
> > (iii) it should be possible to abort (with C-g `abort-recursive-edit'),
> > any minibuffer. This will have the effect of aborting all more deeply
> > nested MBs at the same time.
> > What do people think about this?
> i and ii sound good to me. I'm not sure about iii -- I think trying it
> out and see what it feels like in practice might be a good idea, though.
An idea: in (iii), how about asking the user with yes-or-no-p before
aborting more than one level? It's something which is unlikely to come
up more than occasionally.
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
> bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).