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| author | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2021-08-12 17:14:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2021-08-12 17:15:52 +0200 |
| commit | afc945d0c96c37796df840a5529e54886e56c0b9 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e48b4a0073e27bd89f06f4589a6196bd6a51631 /lisp | |
| parent | 1678d3599bd3b4e1abac15af54d82202b842428b (diff) | |
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Improve minibuffer-inactive-mode documentation
* lisp/minibuffer.el (minibuffer-inactive-mode): Clarify when it's
used (bug#13641).
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/minibuffer.el | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/minibuffer.el b/lisp/minibuffer.el index 9f327df28f5..f193c420376 100644 --- a/lisp/minibuffer.el +++ b/lisp/minibuffer.el @@ -2706,7 +2706,14 @@ not active.") :abbrev-table nil ;abbrev.el is not loaded yet during dump. ;; Note: this major mode is called from minibuf.c. "Major mode to use in the minibuffer when it is not active. -This is only used when the minibuffer area has no active minibuffer.") +This is only used when the minibuffer area has no active minibuffer. + +Note that the minibuffer may change to this mode more often than +you might expect. For instance, typing `M-x' may change the +buffer to this mode, then to a different mode, and then back +again to this mode upon exit. Code running from +`minibuffer-inactive-mode-hook' has to be prepared to run +multiple times per minibuffer invocation.") (defvaralias 'minibuffer-mode-map 'minibuffer-local-map) |