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In emacs, sometimes I will be in the middle of finding a file or switching buffers or doing something in the minibuffer, and I will click somewhere else for some reason. When I go back, the only way to make the minibuffer prompt active again is to click inside the minibuffer, which is annoying because…
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In Emacs, there are some cases where I would like to prevent messages from appearing in the minibuffer, mainly pertaining to "Beginning/End of buffer" and "Text is read-only".
Is there any way I can prevent these messages from appearing in the minibuffer?
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Consider the following example: I want to read a file using ido from the minibuffer, but merge in all of the directories I use often. I can't just execute
(ido-find-file)
(ido-merge-work-directories)
Because the second sexp will only execute after the user is finished selecting the file. The…
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I want to display a colored string of text in the minibuffer, but when I use the 'message' function, the text-properties of are stripped.
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In Emacs, after a lot of editing, I press C-x s (save-some-buffers), then Emacs asks "Save file ...? (y,n,.... d ...)" for each file, I sometimes answer d (diff) to see the changes, but then it's not easy to scroll the diff buffer because the cursor is on the minibuffer. Scrollbar does not work. C-M-v…
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