From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: annoying menu in minibuffer for selecting input charset (?) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:17:55 +0200 Message-ID: References: <11d5f8dc-da4b-4040-b3f3-afa43766d436@a35g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <777382c0-012c-4dc9-85ab-1abd134efede@e67g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197924135 2486 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2007 20:42:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:42:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 17 21:42:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J4Mmr-0007je-1x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:42:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J4MmX-0002O6-Tk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:41:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J4Mm9-0002Fu-S9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:41:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J4Mm7-0002Ag-2S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:41:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J4Mm6-0002AS-WF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:41:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J4Mm6-0003hH-MQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:41:18 -0500 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J4MQp-00079k-4X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:19:19 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-198-53.inter.net.il [80.230.198.53]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id EJQ33945 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:17:52 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <777382c0-012c-4dc9-85ab-1abd134efede@e67g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> (bachmann@geo.uzh.ch) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50155 Archived-At: > From: "bachmann@geo.uzh.ch" > Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:54:21 -0800 (PST) > > In the minibuffer I see the words "glish/European]" (the font-size is > bigger than in other parts and the font-weight is bold. The start of > the string "[English" lies outside the emacs windows and is not > visible). When I click into the minibuffer a small window pops up > showing the 8 entries. > > The annoyance is that I don't see any minibuffer 'messages' when I'm > e.g. looking for a file (hitting C-x f, entering the beginning of a > file name and then hitting TAB, or hitting M-x and starting to enter a > command), The regular minibuffer messages appear above the menu and I > have first to resize first the minibuffer before I see what I typed > (the minibuffer is only 1 line height and does not automatically > expand). > To illustrate the problem better I took some screenshots: They can be > seen here http://www.sonoqua.ch/emacs/ . > > > Also, does this happen when you start Emacs with "emacs -Q"? If the > > problem disappears in "emacs -Q", there's something in your .emacs or > > the system-wide site-start.el file that causes this annoyance. > '-Q' doesn't remove the menu. Very strange. I cannot find in the stock Emacs distribution any files that could result in the display shown in your screen shots. Maybe I'm blind? What OS is that, and what does "M-x emacs-version RET" say? Also, what are the values of `system-configuration' and `system-configuration-options'?