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From: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Playing with the minibuffer -- two questions
Keywords: minibuffer
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Date: 14 Jun 88 18:17:16 GMT
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In-reply-to: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)

In article <25724@bbn.COM>, jr@bbn (John Robinson) writes:
> 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.

In order to be able to save a minibuffer message (e.g., a help message or an
error message) in some way.  It would be nice if you could hit a key and have
the message be inserted in the current buffer, or assigned to a variable, or
whatever.  E.g., you do something, you get an error message in the minibuffer,
you want to look at the error message AND edit the offending source at the same
time.  The error message vanishes as soon as you try to the latter.

It seems like this should be pretty easy to implement and would provide useful
functionality.  Hence the suggestion.

-- Ashwin.