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27.1; Access to invoking top level command in minibuffer

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Clemens <clemera <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 45177 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45177: 27.1; Access to invoking top level command in
 minibuffer
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 07:18:39 +0100

Clemens <clemera <at> posteo.net> writes:

> Oh I just noticed it still points to real-this-command right? I was
> mislead by the docs ;) My thought why `this-command` might have been
> a good idea was that people might want to call commands from Elisp like this
>
> (let ((this-command 'my-cmd))
>     (call-interactively 'my-cmd))
>
> and then expect the configuration of the minibuffer applied by
> Selectrum to apply. To make this work with real-this-command they
> would need to bind that but it is discouraged I think? This is mostly
> a consideration about what might happen in user code later.

Good catch; I meant to change it to this-command, but I forgot to change
it in the actual binding.  Fixed now.

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