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From: mdb@silvlis.com (Mark D. Baushke)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: ^X-O inside minibuffer
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Date: 16 Jan 89 17:36:12 GMT
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>  Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 03:50:06 EST
>  From: sun!wheaties.ai.mit.edu!klotz (Leigh L. Klotz)
>  
>  Maybe ^X-O should be disabled inside the minibuffer,
>  just as ^X-2 is.

I disagree. Leave the feature as it is. 

I have found it very useful to be able to go searching in other
windows for elements needed to complete a complex command being
assembled in the mini-buffer (typically when in Eval: mode in the
mini-buffer).

Another use of the feature is when doing a find-file with completion and
having to search the *Completions* buffer when there are too many
entries listed to be displayed in the split window at one time.

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