From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scroll-left *Disabled Command* buffer is too short
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:42:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468A6044.8020303@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abud6052.fsf@escher.local.home>
> Thiat patch doesn't make the last line visible; instead, it expands the
> height of the minibuffer.
Indeed. I concentrated to make this work with split windows.
> However, I played around with the idea and
> the following does the job, though the window is actually much higher
> than it needs to be.
We could use `shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer'.
>
> *** novice.el 2007-01-21 23:44:40.000000000 +0100
> --- novice.el 2007-07-03 16:04:45.000000000 +0200
> ***************
> *** 92,97 ****
> --- 92,98 ----
> (help-mode)))
> (message "Type y, n, ! or SPC (the space bar): ")
> (let ((cursor-in-echo-area t))
> + (fit-window-to-buffer)
> (while (progn (setq char (read-event))
> (or (not (numberp char))
> (not (memq (downcase char)
>
> To be honest, I do not understand why your patch failed, nor why this
> one works (better).
Your patch fails with split windows, maybe you could play around a bit more.
Anyway users should be able to scroll the window with the text because the
text might be larger than the frame.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-03 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-03 11:05 scroll-left *Disabled Command* buffer is too short Stephen Berman
2007-07-03 12:57 ` martin rudalics
2007-07-03 14:18 ` Stephen Berman
2007-07-03 14:42 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2007-07-03 15:06 ` Stephen Berman
2007-07-03 15:37 ` martin rudalics
2007-07-03 15:52 ` Stephen Berman
2007-07-03 20:40 ` martin rudalics
2007-07-03 21:49 ` Stephen Berman
2007-07-05 1:29 ` Richard Stallman
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