From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6253: Please resize mini-buffer for queries even if resize-mini-windows is nil Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 15:49:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274623050 5367 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2010 13:57:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 13:57:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6253@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 23 15:57:28 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGBgG-00024V-8F for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 15:57:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39445 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGBgF-0005gh-G7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 09:57:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35903 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGBg2-0005eM-7A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 09:57:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGBg0-00056p-O8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 09:57:14 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGBg0-00056c-BR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 09:57:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGBa3-0007YF-6A; Sun, 23 May 2010 09:51:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lennart Borgman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 13:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6253 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6253-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6253.127462262029012 (code B ref 6253); Sun, 23 May 2010 13:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6253) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 May 2010 13:50:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGBZM-0007Xt-4r for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 09:50:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f203.google.com ([209.85.211.203]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGBZJ-0007Xo-BV for 6253@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 09:50:17 -0400 Original-Received: by ywh41 with SMTP id 41so1256115ywh.9 for <6253@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 23 May 2010 06:50:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=hE01BdwlgndEta4qJpY22wMrdLMXz6/1HCDFHkjwDYg=; b=v2SYE8NW3O4osVfHhlDJwEv59nShuPDcwVWPXiXk1bLuAdGvLBpzmtAlSryaVjBjJG i6gqCqxUMoMyorKy3cRkD7aiRoSBQ+e8rnxNwjDG/yp5ndgzkcjA+ops19LCEyqijhG0 zJSEHarnaweKRpOPjNTlDyn2kTdnUiDsJdHgg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=piBG3nLdIkDqzrO2zR8UaU4pbv0LqjMDIfStQlh6i/vg2PGvcdEWCneWJ/dTPJHrN6 HagThdKExV09PKqx1cTLlHs/SfSU7+RO3vZ+6q5vIHKRH1L+d52B44k0wEoYwaLi1uFU gm/PbU3p94v/348Yh997ZLA6KCQe3+n/MlJrc= Original-Received: by 10.100.233.4 with SMTP id f4mr5051149anh.217.1274622612124; Sun, 23 May 2010 06:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.100.177.20 with HTTP; Sun, 23 May 2010 06:49:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 09:51:03 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:37205 Archived-At: On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Otherwise you just see the last line of a multiple line query prompt. > > Hmm... IIUC when the user sets resize-mini-windows to nil, that's > because she doesn't want this resizing. > And multiline prompts are a problem (in cases where resizing is simply > impossible, for example) in any case. =C2=A0So I think the right thing to= do > is to report the "multiline prompts" as bugs. I think what the user normally want is to avoid messages that resizes the miniwindow. I guess most users want to see the whole multiline prompt. Why not distinguish between those cases? Maybe a new value for resize-mini-windows. With regards to multiline prompts please remember that a "short" prompt may wrap because it includes something that is long. That could for example be the case when the prompt includes a file path. So beeing able to always resize the mini window is useful whatever we do.