Re: Emacs for new users

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I do not want to see minibuffer inputting become something strictly modal that
> locks you into some restricted dialog. Users should be able to go anywhere and
> do pretty much anything while the minibuffer is active.


I said for new users.


> It seems like you are thinking of the minibuffer in a very restricted way, 
> akin
> to modal dialog box. It is not modal in that way and should not be.


Maybe it seems like that but I don't.

However I am not at all sure what states you can get into when you
leave minibuffer. What is allowed and what is not? Are you sure?