Re: Menus with more items than the TTY can display

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > The next request might sound silly, but please humor me.  Please
 > repeat the experiment with setting resize-mini-windows to nil, and
 > with the original 22/21.0 frame size, but this time set
 > resize-mini-windows via M-:, and make sure the cursor is in the same
 > position as when you enter Emacs.  Please do the same 10 presses on
 > the down arrow key as you did before, so that I could compare the
 > termscripts again.  I expect the termscripts to be identical in this
 > case.

I didn't even care to check: Typing at least one character into the
*scratch* window makes the problem disappear.  It's only when I type
nothing into the window that the problem persists.  What a silly red
herring I dished up here.

(If you still think that I should compare the termscript files I'll
obviously do so.)

 > Note that I half expect the magical resize-mini-windows effect to
 > disappear, when you do the above, i.e. I expect you to see the problem
 > even with resize-mini-windows nil.  If this is indeed so, it is a Good
 > Thing, because I cannot imagine any relation between that variable and
 > what you see.

OK.  Then we have at least one good thing now.

 > Finally, after you do all that, please comment out the line marked
 > below at the end of tty_menu_display, recompile, and see if the
 > problem persists.
 >
 > 	display_tty_menu_item (menu->text[j], max_width, face, x, y + i,
 > 			       menu->submenu[j] != NULL);
 >       }
 >     update_frame_with_menu (sf);
 >     cursor_to (sf, row, col);  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
 >   }

Unfortunately the problem persists with this line commented out.

martin