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To: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
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Subject: Re: patches to compile.el 
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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 17:16:15 -0600
From: Chuck Thompson <cthomp@xemacs.org>

    sb> `cet' is Chuck?  I doubt I will accept any patches for
    sb> uncommenting this for 20.1, but will consider it for 20.2.

That would be me.  I don't remember what my exact objections were.
minbuffer-prompt would probably be safe enough to reenable.  I'm
pretty sure my real objections involved minibuffer-prompt-width and
the way these two were actually used internally.

Do not re-enable minibuffer-prompt-width.  It cannot provide accurate
information in a variable-width world and its use will lead to bad
practices.  Anyone who insists on having it can easily fake it with
(length (minibuffer-prompt))


			-Chuck

