Re: Need an enabler for a bad habit.

[Kevin Rodgers]

William Case wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:05 +0100, Mathias Dahl wrote:
> > So, what you want is to be able to click in the echo area (the area
> > below the mode line) to get the "M-x prompt" (without needing to type
> > M-x), is it?
>
> Essentially, yes.  But I have always thought what you have called the
> echo area was the mini-buffer in emacs and I don't even need the "M-x
> prompt".  I just want my cursor blinking in the very first field/column
> of the echo area.  I will type the command or accelerator keys that I
> need after the cursor is placed.  I would expect that the cursor would
> remain at the end of the command line until I push Enter.

The echo area and the minibuffer share that real estate on the screen
(as is explained in both the Echo Area and Minibuffer sections of the
manual :-)

Perhaps what you want can be provided via a minibuffer-only frame?

> If you open a virtual terminal and type a couple of shell commands, you
> can see what I mean.
>
> I want to reconfirm, I am not advocating that others may want this or
> that it is something emacs should automatically do.  In fact, it is a
> waste of time and clicks and/or keystrokes.  However, intuitively, as in
> a command line on a terminal, I like to see that I have moved on to the
> next command by seeing the cursor at the beginning of a cleared command
> line (the command-to-be, so to speak), that I have a second or two to
> think about what exactly I am going to type next; and what I type next
> will be a command of some sort.
>
> It is a habit that comes from 30 years of being a computer user.

My habits come from 23 years of being an Emacs user :-)

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Kevin