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Article #98693Renaming the minibuffer in 18.55 / 18.57
From: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1991 17:58
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1991 17:58
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Emacs 18.57 (and 18.55) bug, running on a pc532 running Minix 1.5.10 / 1.3 hybrid (emacs 18.57) and a Sun 4/something running SunOS 4. Set the variable enable-recursive-minibuffers to t. Use a command that uses the minibuffer to read arguments (for example ^x 4 ^f), then while in minibuffer, say M-x rename-buffer foo. Emacs creates a window to display the minibuffer - one could say that this is useful, but there's no way to kill the buffer named 'foo' after this and even if you bury it it keeps coming on top whenever you kill a buffer. Emacs lisp reference manual says: Introduction to Minibuffers =========================== In most ways, a minibuffer is a normal Emacs buffer. Most operations *within* a buffer, such as editing commands, work normally in a minibuffer. However, many operations for managing buffers do not apply to minibuffers. The name of a minibuffer always has the form ` *Minibuf-NUMBER', and it cannot be changed. There is a so this seems like a bug. Even if it's a feature, it's very annoying if there is no way to make the renamed minibuffer to disappear from the window list. //Jyrki
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,bd233247376cb428,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-03-09 15:52:24 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unreplyable!garbage From: jkp@SAUNA.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Renaming the minibuffer in 18.55 / 18.57 Message-ID: <9103091758.AA27988@cs.hut.fi> Date: 9 Mar 91 17:58:34 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Lines: 29 Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu