On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 07:31:51PM +1030, David Kettler wrote:
> Thanks for your comments, John.
> 
> I'm a little hesitant to suggest this, because I think this feature
> should always be on; browsers should always make the URL visible when
> following a link.  That said, a way to reduce the risk of introducing
> this feature is to enable the binding dynamically (see the reference
> below).  That way (if it defaults off) there is no change to the
> minibuffer unless it's enabled.
> 
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XBL/XBL_1.0_Reference/Binding_Attachment_and_Detachment#Attachment_using_element.style_property
> 
> Regards, David

Even if it were on by default and we used this method of disabling it, it
would mean less of a footprint on the GUI for people who didn't use it,
and that could be a good thing.  If I am thinking this through correctly,
it would mean that instead of a user variable 'hints_information', we
would have a global mode that enabled the binding.  Modes are
stylistically nice.  Better to use a stylesheet, alone or in a theme, than
to use the element.style method on every minibuffer-input, I think,
because it's a simple thing to register/unregister a stylesheet.

-- 
John Foerch
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