Questions tagged [minibuffer]

In emacs, sometimes I will be in the middle of finding a file or switching buffers or doing something in the minibuffer, and I will click somewhere else for some reason. When I go back, the only way to make the minibuffer prompt active again is to…

How would I implement a bare bones function that 're-evaluates' with every key-press? I mean key-press loosely; I'm looking to emulate the behavior of isearch and friends. I would be using this to interactively test XPath expressions against an…

I'd like to keep dired open as a tall pane, separated horizontally from my other windows (like in TextMate). How can I move dired's path name into its modeline?

I am a college student and am just back from my internship. There, I extensively used emacs and I had never used Emacs before. So I am not sure which version of emacs it was. There was this cheat I don't remember (C-x ???), which would show a list…