From: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rename `mini-' options
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 02:12:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b501d5c0905151712te5bbe7fqdf5aa18a93448066@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000101c9d5a0$03917dc0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com>
2009/5/15 Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>:
> Names such as `resize-mini-windows' and `max-mini-window-height' are
> unfortunate. They prevent you from easily finding them by looking for names that
> include `minibuffer' or even `minibuf'.
>
> Since when did `mini' start being used in option etc. names to stand for the
> minibuffer? The only variable names with `mini-' are these two plus
> `kmacro-step-edit-mini-window-height'. Obviously, given the last of these, the
> name length is not of supreme importance. And there are *no* functions with
> `mini-' in their names.
>
> It would have been sufficient, if the name length were so important, to use
> `minibuffer-resize' or `minibuf-auto-resize'. Similarly,
> `minibuffer-max-height'. And `minibuffer' should probably come first in the
> name: `minibuffer-resize', not `resize-minibuffer'.
>
> We should change the names of the `mini-' window options and use temporary
> aliases to ease deprecation of those names.
Unless I had read your post I never would have guessed
`resize-mini-windows' deals with the minibuffer at all.
resize-mini-windows is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is grow-only
Documentation:
*How to resize mini-windows.
A value of nil means don't automatically resize mini-windows.
A value of t means resize them to fit the text displayed in them.
A value of `grow-only', the default, means let mini-windows grow
only, until their display becomes empty, at which point the windows
go back to their normal size.
This is the first time I encounter something called "mini-windows",
but it seems to me, after having read the documentation for the
variable, that the minibuffer is an instance of them? Are there any
other mini-windows or is this just very poorly documented?
Deniz Dogan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-16 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-05-15 20:59 ` Rename `mini-' options Drew Adams
2009-05-16 0:12 ` Deniz Dogan [this message]
2009-05-16 0:21 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 1:47 Davis Herring
2009-05-16 2:11 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 2:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-05-16 2:32 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 3:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-05-16 4:20 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-05-16 19:20 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 19:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-05-16 6:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-05-16 7:13 ` Miles Bader
2009-05-16 8:24 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 9:21 ` Miles Bader
2009-05-16 19:21 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-17 1:59 ` Miles Bader
2009-05-16 9:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-05-17 4:10 ` Stefan Monnier
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