Re: Avoiding moving point into minibuffer prompt area

[Lennart Borgman]

Luc Teirlinck wrote:

> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
>   I think it is quite confusing that you can move the point into the 
>   prompt area in the minibuffer. Why don't we use something like the code 
>   below to avoid this:
>
> As I already pointed out, I personally do not find this confusing, but
> very useful.  For people who do not like it, however, the
> functionality you want is already available.
>
> Do 
>
> M-x customize-option RET minibuffer-prompt-properties RET
>
> and check:
>
> Inviolable.
>  
Thanks Luc! I supposed someone would say they wanted to copy the prompt 
but I thought then one could turn off the hook (since I supposed those 
who want to are seasoned Emacs users).

I did not know about this option however. The current behaviour is 
probably not what a new user expects. I can't think of any other program 
that behaves like this. Shell prompt for example do not.

I agree with Drew that the default should be that "Inviolable" should be 
on (it should not be possible to move the point into the minibuffer 
prompt). Is not that in line with how we have thought in other similar 
cases?