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> From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:42:42 -0400
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, ghe@sdf.org, Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>, 
> 	Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > >  (i.e. a variable-height drop-down shade)
> >
> > Can you elaborate about this (and its relevance to growing the
> > mini-window)?  I don't think I see the relation.
> 
> Forgive me if I inaccurately conflate the minibuffer and the echo
> area.  Let me try some pictures.
> 
> 
> Minibuffer in its minimal, collapsed, single line state:

Ah, so this should go together with "minibuffer on top".  Thanks, now
everything is clear.