Re: beginning-of-visual-line doesn't respect read-only prompts in minibuffer

[Miles Bader]

William Xu <address@hidden> writes:
> When global-visual-line-mode is enabled, C-a is rebinded to
> beginning-of-visual-line, which doesn't respect(or get respected)
> read-only prompts in minibuffer like old beginning-of-line.  For
> example,
>
>   M-x C-e C-a a
>
> You get a warn: "Text is read-only".  This is very bad.  I guess it is a
> bug? 

Certainly.

-Miles

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