bug#160: marked as done (Documentation of top-level doesn't mention that it kills minibuffers)

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> Documentation of top-level doesn't mention that it kills minibuffers
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> Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:50:33 +0200
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> Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v)
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> The documentation string for top-level says "Exit all recursive
> editing levels.", and the manual says
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> :    The command `M-x top-level' is equivalent to "enough" `C-]' commands
> : to get you out of all the levels of recursive edits that you are in.
> : `C-]' gets you out one level at a time, but `M-x top-level' goes out
> : all levels at once.
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> This doesn't mention that the command also kills all existing
> minibuffers, which I think is an important feature of that command.
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> As far as I'm aware, "minibuffer" and "recursive edit" usually refers
> to two quite different concepts. I don't know if they are related
> internally, but for me, I associate "recursive edit" with the display
> of [] in the mode line, which isn't displayed no matter how many
> minibuffers I have (I have set enable-recursive-minibuffers to t, and
> I can get several dozens of them when my one and a half year old kid
> borrows the keyboard...).
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> Best regards,
> /Niels Möller
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>   value of $LC_COLLATE: C
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.iso-8859-1
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: nil
>   locale-coding-system: iso-8859-1
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> Re: Documentation of top-level doesn't mention that it kills minibuffers
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> Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:28:27 -0400
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> > The documentation string for top-level says "Exit all recursive
> > editing levels.", and the manual says
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> > :    The command `M-x top-level' is equivalent to "enough" `C-]' commands
> > : to get you out of all the levels of recursive edits that you are in.
> > : `C-]' gets you out one level at a time, but `M-x top-level' goes out
> > : all levels at once.
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> > This doesn't mention that the command also kills all existing
> > minibuffers, which I think is an important feature of that command.
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> I've updated the docs accordingly.  Thanks.
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