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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Playing with the minibuffer -- two questions
Summary: prompt and message are hidden
Keywords: minibuffer
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Date: 14 Jun 88 13:44:06 GMT
References: <31024@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <2379@mipos3.intel.com>
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In-reply-to: nate@mipos3.intel.com (Nate Hess)

In article <2379@mipos3.intel.com>, nate@mipos3 (Nate Hess) writes:
>Note, however, that there is no way, to my knowledge, to grab the
>message in the minibuffer area, ie., Quit, Auto-saving...done, etc.
>What the foobar function above *does* allow you to grab is the contents
>of the minibuffer if it's already active.  For example, if you've typed
>'M-x foo' when you execute foobar, you'll get "foo".  If you've typed
>'C-x C-f', you'll get "<default directory>/".  The "M-x " and the
>"Find File: " will *not* be included as part of the minibuffer contents.
>This seems to follow, though, from the fact that if you do 'M-x foo' and
>then a 'C-a', you'll go to just before the "foo", and not all the way
>back to before the "M-x".  So, the messages don't really seem to be part
>of the minibuffer.

The minibuffer prompt and message strings (error output) are tucked
away in C variables that aren't accesible to E-Lisp.  They could be
with source changes.  But I don't see why this is eneded.
-- 
/jr
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