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- From: lebrun@ll.mit.edu (Steven F. LeBrun)
- Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc
- Subject: Epoch vs Emacs : cursor-in-echo-area
- Message-ID: <9301111650.PN22082@LL.MIT.EDU>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 21:50:54 GMT
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- Distribution: gnu.epoch.misc
- Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
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- I recently wrote an emacs-lisp function that reads in a password
- without echoing. This function uses the function call:
-
- (setq cursor-in-echo-area t)
-
- to move the cursor from the buffer window to the minibuffer window
- (actually the echo area -- same physical location as the minibuffer).
-
- When I evaluate my function from EMACS (epoch -nw), everything works
- fine. When I evaluate the same function from EPOCH (using X Window),
- it still works except that the cursor never moves to the echo area.
-
- Does EPOCH use the global variable cursor-in-echo-area in the same
- way that EMACS does?
-
- Also, as a test, I set cursor-in-echo-area to `t' in EPOCH. The cursor
- did not move out of the buffer window. But when I created a *Buffer List*
- [C-x C-b] and moved the cursor to that window, the cursor did not behave
- correctly. It stayed at the end of the first line. The cursor also stayed
- at the end of the line in RMAIL mode.
-
- Could anyone explain what is going on in EPOCH when cursor-in-echo-area
- is `t'. Also, is there a way to move the cursor to the echo area in
- EPOCH?
-
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