From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#43572: Feature request: make it possible to choose whether the first lines of the minibuffer should be displayed instead of the last ones Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:26:04 +0300 Message-ID: <831riruu83.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9043"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 43572@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 24 16:27:56 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kLSE0-0002EV-3X for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:27:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52570 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLSDz-0005J8-4o for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:27:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58778) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLSD8-0004Vm-9m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLSD7-0003w8-Tk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:27:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kLSD7-000225-MU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:27:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:27:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 43572 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 43572-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B43572.16009575657746 (code B ref 43572); Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:27:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 43572) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Sep 2020 14:26:05 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41152 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kLSCD-00020r-EC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:26:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51604) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kLSCB-00020O-Jb for 43572@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:26:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33846) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLSC6-0003pG-1r; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:25:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1883 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kLSC3-0001dR-Kr; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:25:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:188856 Archived-At: > Cc: 43572@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:47:05 +0000 > From: Gregory Heytings via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, > the Swiss army knife of text editors" > > > I think what I was getting at is that this "request" should come from > > the minibuffer's text rather than from a variable. > > If this were possible, it would be even better indeed. An "importance" > text property, which would inform redisplay (?) of the relative importance > of the parts of the buffer. But implementing this is several orders of > magnitude harder than implementing my proposal. Actually testing for a certain text property in resize_mini_window should be quite simple. We do similar things elsewhere in the display code. So I see no reason to avoid that. It would definitely resolve any issues with inadvertently affecting unrelated users of the mini-window.