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