Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tak Kunihiro <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 09:56:30 +0900
> Cc: Karl Fogel <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>  address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > We made this very simple a few years ago: Just keep typing C-g.
> > I guess these users don't know that.
> >
> > Can anyone thing of a better way to teach them about this?
> 
> How about to click somewhere in main-buffer area to get him out of the
> state and say `type C-g next time'?

That would disable a very useful feature, whereby clicking somewhere
else leaves the minibuffer active and allows you to do something else
temporarily.  I also believe it might break scrolling by clicking on
the scroll bars or other similar mouse gestures, while the minibuffer
is active, or at least make the implementation of those gestures
harder.

It is also not something users will expect: AFAIK other GUI
applications allow you to clock the mouse anywhere without losing the
context of the current prompt.