Re: minibuffer plays hard to get with shell command output

[Richard Stallman]

    I now see that in X it does not work to do:
     M-! date RET
    and get the result with the mouse.  I agree with the poster in that it
    should be possible.

I agree too, and I tried to implement this.  I found it was not easy;
it needs some new basic changes which are on the TODO list already.
We need primitives that can do display position calculation using
fractional positions, in a way that is compatible with actual
redisplay.

Would someone like to volunteer to write this C code?