On 16 Aug 2005, at 05:51, Drew Adams wrote:
And a question - ignore, if this has already been beaten to death -
shouldn't "inviolable" be the default value? A novice might get
confused and
not know about the option to make the text inviolable;
Yes, I agree: it should be default. I used to be first confused, then
annoyed when it happened repeatedly (I delete text pretty often
that's in the minibuffer, and then I accidentally get into the
prompt), so I set 'read-only' (similar to inviolable, i guess) as a
default in Aquamacs.
a veteran is more
likely to try to copy prompt text and to discover the open-sesame
option, if
it is locked by default.
Luc says he likes to copy the prompt when reporting bugs etc., but
who is Emacs catering for? Its own developers? Its bug-reporting
users? Or users that actually do productive use? The latter should
probably be the default assumption, since it agrees with what most
people do with it...
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