Re: I can back up over all kinds of prompts with C-b

[Miles Bader]

jidanni@deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson) writes:
> Perhaps the answer lies here, but you know what?  I hate using that
> customization auto-system jazz... I just want to edit my .emacs by
> hand and not have to go into some auto quiz soda pop push button
> machine that I don't want to learn and then it goes writing things I
> don't understand into my .emacs.

You could use customize to turn on the `Inviolable' option for just the
current session, and then look at the resulting value of the
`minibuffer-prompt-properties' variable.  You can then put that into
your .emacs.

If you're too lazy to do that, well ... this should work:

  (setq minibuffer-prompt-properties
        (plist-put minibuffer-prompt-properties
                   'point-entered 'minibuffer-avoid-prompt))

[untested]

-Miles
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