From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Minibuffer height problem Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 03:25:42 +0200 Message-ID: <42ED7A16.8090207@student.lu.se> References: <42EC81DD.6030001@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122860134 29666 80.91.229.2 (1 Aug 2005 01:35:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 01:35:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 01 03:35:31 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzPD7-00059A-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 03:35:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzPE9-0000UY-Rk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DzPDF-0000Jz-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DzPDC-0000I4-Bh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzPDB-0000FM-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:35:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DzPFq-0007Ko-NR; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:38:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B9371700618CBF; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 03:25:45 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41390 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41390 Richard M. Stallman wrote: >max-mini-window-height is documented in the Emacs Manual, >in the minibuffer section. > > Yes, in the "user part", but I was reading the Elisp Manual and in 20.1 Introduction to Minibuffers it says " The minibuffer's window is normally a single line; it grows automatically if necessary if the contents require more space. " Which I think is not the whole truth and actually might stop the user from searching for more information. >But I think I see a bug here: for y-or-n-p, I think it should >show the last part of the message rather than the first, >so that the "? (y or n)" appears. In other words, it should >scroll up so the bottom appears on the screen. > >Could someone please implement that, and ack this message? > > I can not do it now, but I observed that yes-or-no-p does not have this problem. Also if you enter some invalid answer to y-or-n-p it will write "Please ..." in the wrong place in the minibuffer.