bug#47150: [External] : bug#47150: 28.0.50; Incorrect major-mode in minibuffer

[Drew Adams]

Hi Alan.

Sorry, I can't speak authoritatively or specifically about this.

But I fear this will break things - just what, I don't know.  I use minibuffers 
a lot, in various ways.

I fear that because perhaps no one will be able to offer a concrete reason why 
you shouldn't make such a change, you'll make it, and only (much?) later will 
we find out that it's broken stuff.  And then we'll hear once again that "That 
ship has sailed."

The minibuffer should be available by default for general editing.  It has its 
own keymaps, etc.  It may not matter what major mode it's in by default - 
that's my guess, in fact - but then again, it may.  And if it doesn't matter, 
then why change things?

Why do you find a need now to give it a special/new major mode?  What's the 
real problem you're trying to solve?  Or is this just another case of looking 
at the C code and thinking that something isn't "consistent" or "complete" 
enough?

Is there a real bug that you're trying to solve here?  If so, what's a simple 
recipe to repro it?

Apologies for being skeptical.  Likely this will be of no consequence (but then 
why do it?).  But maybe not?