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 19.13 Recursive Minibuffers
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 Recursive Editing::):
 
  -- Function: minibuffer-depth
      This function returns the current depth of activations of the
      minibuffer, a nonnegative integer.  If no minibuffers are active,
      it returns zero.
 
  -- User Option: enable-recursive-minibuffers
      If this variable is non-‘nil’, you can invoke commands (such as
      ‘find-file’) that use minibuffers even while the minibuffer window
      is active.  Such invocation produces a recursive editing level for
      a new minibuffer.  The outer-level minibuffer is invisible while
      you are editing the inner one.
 
      If this variable is ‘nil’, you cannot invoke minibuffer commands
      when the minibuffer window is active, not even if you switch to
      another window to do it.
 
    If a command name has a property ‘enable-recursive-minibuffers’ that
 is non-‘nil’, then the command can use the minibuffer to read arguments
 even if it is invoked from the minibuffer.  A command can also achieve
 this by binding ‘enable-recursive-minibuffers’ to ‘t’ in the interactive
 declaration (Using Interactive).  The minibuffer command
 ‘next-matching-history-element’ (normally ‘M-s’ in the minibuffer) does
 the latter.
 

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