[net.emacs] Recursive minibuffer considered harmful

thomas%UTAH-GR%utah-cs@sri-unix.UUCP (08/25/83)

From:  Spencer W. Thomas  <thomas%UTAH-GR@utah-cs>

Not that I don't like it, you understand, but I keep coming up against
bugs it causes.  The latest:  You can read a file into the minibuffer
with ^X^R.  (Try ESC-X ^X^R <some file which exists>.)  This is not too
bad, you can always "erase-buffer" to get rid of it.  But! if the file
has a mode associated with it, you lose your key bindings.  Not good.
I don't have a fix for this one yet, just thought I'd warn you all.

=Spencer