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Re: Handling minibuffers in several mini-windows
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Handling minibuffers in several mini-windows |
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Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:06:12 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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.
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