Re: Handling minibuffers in several mini-windows

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> My proposal (which I've already implemented and tried out, though not
> published at all), is that
> (i) it should be possible to type into, and edit text in any visible
>   minibuffer;
> (ii) it should be possible to terminate (by RET `exit-minibuffer') only
>   the most deeply nested MB.  The attempt elsewhere should display an
>   error message, leaving the MBs unchanged;
> (iii) it should be possible to abort (with C-g `abort-recursive-edit'),
>   any minibuffer.  This will have the effect of aborting all more deeply
>   nested MBs at the same time.
>
> What do people think about this?

i and ii sound good to me.  I'm not sure about iii -- I think trying it
out and see what it feels like in practice might be a good idea, though.

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