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> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> >     Is there any reason we couldn't make it call out to lisp to do the
> >     formatting?
> > 
> > It's ok with me if someone finds it easy to do.
> 
> What do you think of the appended patch?  It moves all the formatting
> and prompting for keyboard-menus to lisp (and in the process gets rid
> of the one-line-at-a-time interface, since the lisp code just displays
> the whole menu at once).

Just a little note: don't assume blindly that the minibuffer/echoarea
is always properly resized.  Think of the case where the frame is too
small.  Or when the user has set resize-mini-windows to nil.


	Stefan "whose Emacs does not know how to resize its
	        minibuffer-only frame"