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#2589
23.0.90; `C-x h' in minibuffer should not include prompt
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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:35:03 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Tags: fixed
Fixed in version 26.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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> > The prompt text is part of the minibuffer, but it is not part of the
> > user's input. It is good that you can select text from the prompt if
> > you need to. But positioning and simple selection commands in the
> > input area should generally act on the user input only.
> >
> > In particular, `C-x h' should select (mark) all of the user input, but
> > only the input. The prompt should not be included in the selection.
>
> This is now fixed on the trunk.
Are you sure? I don't have the trunk available, but in my latest
Emacs 25 build, which is this, it is not fixed.
In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2015-12-10
Repository revision: 6148555ee5a3d0139ae517803718b3e0357933c7
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
'configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/snapshot/trunk --enable-checking=yes
--enable-check-lisp-object-type --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-Og
-ggdb3' LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib 'CPPFLAGS=-DGC_MCHECK=1
-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include''
emacs -Q
M-x
C-x h
C-e
C-y
The prompt text is selected by C-x h. The bug report says:
In particular, `C-x h' should select (mark) all of the user input, but
only the input. The prompt should not be included in the selection.
This bug report was last modified 8 years and 199 days ago.
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