Subject: bug#46033: up arrow in query replace should not step into the prompt

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 19:44:52 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> This is a feature: it allows you to scroll through the text shown in
> the minibuffer, in case you want to edit it.  Use M-p to go directly
> to the previous history.

I think the complaint is that this:

M-: (read-string "Foo: ")
<up>

and this:

M-: (read-string "This is a very long prompt indeed and it goes on and on and never seems to stop oh yes now it did: ")
<up>

work very differently.  In the first case, the <up> works the same as
`M-p',  In the latter case, <up> puts point into the prompt.

It does seem inconsistent.

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