minibuffer-scroll-window question

[Trey Jackson <bigfaceworm@gmail.com>]

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All,

When reading the documentation for minibuffer-scroll-window, it looks like I
should be able to do something like:

(defun my-minibuffer-setup-hook ()
  "try to force the scroll window to be the bottom-left window in the
current frame"
  (setq minibuffer-scroll-window (window-at 0 (- (frame-height) 2))))
(add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'my-minibuffer-setup-hook)

However, in minibuf.c, the defun 'minibuffer-complete sets the
minibuf_scroll_window variable to nil.

So, my question is, how and when can this variable be meaningfully used by
an end user?  Should my hook have worked (i.e. this behavior is a bug)?


thanks,

TJ

-- 
Trey Jackson
bigfaceworm@gmail.com
"Like any truly useful program, `hello' contains a built-in mail reader."
-- GNU's Bulletin, July 1996

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