GNU bug report logs - #988
cursor runs over prompt in minibuffer; suggestion on default

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tags 988 wontfix
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Tagging as wontfix following Stefan's comment in emacs-devel:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-10/msg00133.html

    > How about making including `point-entered minibuffer-avoid-prompt'
    > in the default value of `minibuffer-prompt-properties'?

    No: the small benefit is not worth the cost of not being able to
    copy (part of) the prompt like any other piece of text.

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Suggestion: I think that cursor shouldn't run over prompt by default. =20=

This behavior is basically universal today.

Here's a newsgroup gnu.emacs.help post that prompted me to file this =20
as a =E2=80=9Cbug=E2=80=9D:

-------------------------------------------------

Davin Pearson asked:

When I execute M-x find-file it says Find File: Why I press cursor =20
left a few times and then try to press a key, it says: "Text is read =20
only".  Surely a more natural behavour would be to beep and not allow =20=

the user to type in that character in the first place.  What gives?

Daniel Pittman wrote:
A:
    M-x customize-variable <RET> minibuffer-prompt-properties <RET>
    Enable the "Don't Enter" option and save your changes

Thanks a lot!

When i switched to emacs in about 2006 from 4 years of xemacs, i was =20
quite annoyed by this behavior. I remember i posted this question, i =20
got some silly responses from emacs regulars in comp.emacs, who says =20
that something to the effect that =E2=80=9Csometimes you need to copy =
the =20
prompt=E2=80=9D.

in my opinion, is this one of the usability problem.

   Xah
=E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/

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