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From: | David Reitter |
Subject: | Re: Avoiding moving point into minibuffer prompt area |
Date: | Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:34:56 +0100 |
On 16 Aug 2005, at 05:51, Drew Adams wrote:
And a question - ignore, if this has already been beaten to death -shouldn't "inviolable" be the default value? A novice might get confused andnot know about the option to make the text inviolable;
Yes, I agree: it should be default. I used to be first confused, then annoyed when it happened repeatedly (I delete text pretty often that's in the minibuffer, and then I accidentally get into the prompt), so I set 'read-only' (similar to inviolable, i guess) as a default in Aquamacs.
a veteran is morelikely to try to copy prompt text and to discover the open-sesame option, ifit is locked by default.
Luc says he likes to copy the prompt when reporting bugs etc., but who is Emacs catering for? Its own developers? Its bug-reporting users? Or users that actually do productive use? The latter should probably be the default assumption, since it agrees with what most people do with it...
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