GNU bug report logs - #49844
Highlight non-selected minibuffer prompt

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 08:16:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 49844 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: bug#49844: Highlight non-selected minibuffer prompt
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2021 13:00:20 +0200
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Ironically, minibuffer.el is intended for code that deals with
>> completions.  Its first line is
>> 
>>   ;;; minibuffer.el --- Minibuffer completion functions
>
> That's not carved in stone, though.  We could change that heading
> accordingly, and start adding stuff to minibuffer.el that doesn't
> necessarily deal with completion.

And there already is a lot of that in minibuffer.el -- just scroll to
the bottom of the file and page up a bit.  At least the last 100 lines
have nothing to do with completion.

So I think we should just change the heading and put more minibuffer
stuff in minibuffer.el.

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