From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: occitan@esperanto.org, 12419@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12419: Mouse click changes layout
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:44:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50547845.8070301@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83627ftu5c.fsf@gnu.org>
>> Where do you see that? Can you give an example?
>
> Try the recipe I showed earlier in this thread with Emacs 23.3, but
> use 1000 instead of 380, and you will see that only the last part of
> the echo-area message is shown.
max-mini-window-height is a variable defined in `xdisp.c'.
Its value is 0.25
Documentation:
Maximum height for resizing mini-windows (the minibuffer and the echo area).
If a float, it specifies a fraction of the mini-window frame's height.
If an integer, it specifies a number of lines.
You can customize this variable.
This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
version 23.1 of Emacs.
>> Then put a one-line window at the bottom of your frame and resize the
>> minibuffer. At the time it sizes back the one-line window has grown.
>
> OK, but why is that a problem grave enough to be concerned about?
> Using Ediff in such a way is non-standard, so won't be a problem for
> most users. And even in this configuration, what is so bad about
> this?
From the number of code lines he spent to handle this problem, I
conclude that it was bad enough for Gerd.
>> > If the lowest window is large enough, why not show more of
>> > the echo-area message, instead of always showing only the last N lines?
>>
>> I don't understand you. As far as minibuffer resizing is concerned, you
>> can show any number of lines in the minibuffer as long as you don't try
>> to delete other windows. So the N lines restriction you see must come
>> from somewhere else.
>
> Maybe it does, but I tried that with "emacs -Q", so the number of such
> other places is severely limited ;-)
It is.
> AFAICS, with your patch the minibuffer is never resized to show more
> than 9 lines, with the default size of the frame which can show 33
> text lines. This is so even if I do _not_ split the frame into 2
> windows, one below the other, but instead invoke 'message' from the
> original window configuration displayed by "emacs -Q", where there's a
> single window showing the "*scratch*" buffer. Try this:
>
> emacs -Q
> (message (make-string 1000 ?a))
> C-x C-e
>
> How many lines and how many a's do you see in the echo area?
9 lines - so our Emacsen are created equal. Nothing can beat evolution ;-)
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-15 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-11 22:04 bug#12419: Mouse click changes layout Daniel Pfeiffer
2012-09-12 2:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-12 8:09 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-13 20:41 ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2012-09-14 9:00 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-14 10:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-14 13:38 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-14 14:10 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-14 15:08 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-14 16:18 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-14 19:14 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-14 19:40 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-15 9:51 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-15 10:31 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-14 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-14 15:16 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-14 16:20 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-14 19:14 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-14 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-14 19:15 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-14 20:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 9:54 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-15 10:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 10:39 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-15 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 12:44 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2012-09-15 13:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 14:34 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-14 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-14 19:14 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-14 19:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-15 9:51 ` martin rudalics
[not found] ` <5055D769.1060804@t-online.de>
2012-09-16 17:45 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-22 20:29 ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2012-09-23 9:21 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-23 21:56 ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2012-09-24 8:17 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-24 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-25 9:58 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-25 12:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-25 14:12 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-26 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-26 11:03 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-26 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-26 12:43 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-26 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-26 13:44 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-26 13:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-24 22:20 ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2012-09-25 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-25 9:58 ` martin rudalics
2020-09-13 17:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-07 16:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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