RE: Avoiding moving point into minibuffer prompt area

[Drew Adams]

      I'd still be interested in knowing what your text-copying
      use case is.

    I sometimes use command history to turn an interactive command into a
    piece of lisp code to use later, or at least study how it was invoked,
    or reinvoke it on a variable instead of a literal string.

Sorry, it's unclear to me what you are saying. Could you elaborate or be
more specific? How does putting the cursor in the minibuffer-prompt area
help you - how do you use that feature?