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I am trying to define an abbreviation for helm-mini, I would like d to expand to *dired. When I try my usual way of *dired C-x a i l, I get an error saying Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer.

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    Setting or binding enable-recursive-minibuffers to non-nil will let you bypass that error. Whether that's what you need here or should use, I don't know.
    – Drew
    Dec 3, 2018 at 23:54
  • Changed comment to an answer (comments can be deleted anytime).
    – Drew
    Dec 4, 2018 at 15:07
  • I have a follow up question on this. The abbrev is getting defined for a fundamental mode, does this mean that the minibuffer is of fundamental mode? Is it possible to restrict this only to buffers created by helm-mini?
    – Arktik
    Dec 4, 2018 at 19:02
  • Please post a followup question as a separate question. And provide a recipe or otherwise make clear just what you mean. Thx.
    – Drew
    Dec 4, 2018 at 19:22

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Setting or binding enable-recursive-minibuffers to non-nil will let you bypass that error. Whether that's what you need here or should use, I don't know.

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