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Renaming the minibuffer in 18.55 / 18.57

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From: Jyrki Kuoppala
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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