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From: KLOTZ@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Leigh L. Klotz")
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Subject: ^X-O inside a mini-buffer
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Date: 19 Jan 89 18:49:32 GMT
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Ok, thanks for all the mail.

Actually, so far only one person, woodstock@hobbes.intel.com, has
understood that my complaint was about the user-level behavior,
and was not based on a mis-understanding about what mini-buffers are.

So, I now make the following suggestion:  The Emacs manual says

   If the minibuffer is active but you have switched to a different
   window, recursive use of the minibuffer is allowed---if you know
   enough to try to do this, you probably will not get confused. If
   you set the variable `enable-recursive-minibuffers' to be
   non-`nil', recursive use of the minibuffer is always allowed.

I propose that the ^X-O feature be included in the set of commands
that is inhibited if enable-recursive-minibuffers is nil.  Contrary
to what the manual says, I did not "try" this commmand, it merely happened
to me.  And I got confused.

Leigh.