From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11276: minibuffers windows can no longer explictly be resized Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:01:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4F913415.6050307@gmx.at> References: <4F8FB736.9020303@gmx.at> <831unjkd2h.fsf@gnu.org> <4F9049F6.8080003@gmx.at> <83hawej152.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334916178 3085 80.91.229.3 (20 Apr 2012 10:02:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:02:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11276@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 20 12:02:57 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SLAg4-00070l-Iz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:02:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLAg3-0001Zt-OX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:02:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLAfs-0001Ym-TU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:02:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLAfn-0008O5-5f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:02:44 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42508) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLAfn-0008Nx-2m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:02:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SLAgA-0001W3-9w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:03:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: martin rudalics Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:03:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11276 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11276-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11276.13349161335765 (code B ref 11276); Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:03:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11276) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Apr 2012 10:02:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43542 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SLAfK-0001Us-2T for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:02:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:44224) by debbugs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SLAfH-0001UC-3x for 11276@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:02:07 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2012 10:01:37 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-44-75.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.44.75]) [62.47.44.75] by mail.gmx.net (mp020) with SMTP; 20 Apr 2012 12:01:37 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19bVxkHlKhbb3FwekdpVVeQdK+ao0CaOIchrO27Gv mQ+Tidj5a0jWBY In-Reply-To: <83hawej152.fsf@gnu.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:59304 Archived-At: >> >> > (The manual also says: >> >> > >> >> > You can resize it permanently by using the window sizing commands in >> >> > the frame's other window, when the minibuffer is not active. >> >> > >> >> > I don't know what this means. It doesn't seem to work in any version of >> >> > Emacs that I can find.) >> >> >> >> The terminology "in the frame's other window" seems to indicate that >> >> this was written in an earlier century. >> > >> > How would you rephrase this for this century? >> >> Maybe "in a window adjacent to it"? > > What's the difference? > > Is your problem with the "window", in singular, or with something > else, like "the frame"? > What does a term like "the frame's other window" mean? A frame can have a couple of "other windows". It took me some while to find out that the other window must be a full height live window. martin