Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!talos!kjones
From: kjones@talos.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: minibuffer questions
Message-ID: <1990Feb7.153059.19557@talos.uu.net>
Date: 7 Feb 90 15:30:59 GMT
References: <186@nimbus3.UUCP> <1990Feb5.022103.3394@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1998@osc.COM>
Reply-To: kyle@xanth.cs.odu.edu
Lines: 13

Joe Keane writes:
 > I have two questions about using read-from-minibuffer in my Emacs
 > Lisp routines.  First, is there any way to specify where to put the
 > point in the minibuffer?  It always starts at the end of the default
 > response, which is not what i want.  Second, is there any way to
 > change the minibuffer prompt, without actually calling
 > exit-minibuffer and recalling read-from-minibuffer with the new
 > prompt?

The answer is "no" to both of these questions, at least conventionally.
At gunpoint I could probably manage to get the minibuffer point adjusted
with vile kludge involving an asynchronous process.  I can't think of
any way to the alter the value of the prompt, though.