From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Is there a way to avoid clobbering minibuffer by messages? Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:28:10 +0300 Message-ID: <835yai3xhh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <3f004ca9-1f71-2c5b-17f1-e154f209e6d3@gmail.com> <83ilei62o6.fsf@gnu.org> <8d94bd37-d657-cf14-c0cb-372cde983ee0@gmail.com> <837cuy5y2m.fsf@gnu.org> <83fs9m42pc.fsf@gnu.org> <83a5zu3z7a.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26711"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 30 20:28:40 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1phx0q-0006hX-Do for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 20:28:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1phx0C-000113-9y; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:28:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1phx0B-00010s-JY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1phx0B-0006b2-Bw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:27:59 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=4ZjeRcpFPFmFteFyUDIByggw1VPeyiS9TV7tdBlIUuQ=; b=KHi1COiPUCj6 xsPHjIoctm/b36GZteBA6gCbKXp5Z3xZ4sY08vSasXu2YvHz6cXYWyEYIZhbRhN2SyYavvz+3Jcuc 26evrGLOkLGNX+9VkKrdXLW6VqudIx8mcvqGfaDSW+SAH8Q4PaXxSqNsA7JsLMI8Fo8hVmRjhttp5 7BORXt0w/9mMf46L1dk9FZtHYuJnZ8YSc7L4GDM2lpSKBMxkWaiJwcPJKUQtuQ0ZxBIKySml/te0J ZJMRqyOLGd5Xr9oFMtWnVQH/afm8GfLwu7uTIn0pmhnEBLB+69w4yXisYGh7o0yxbtUhrutCjhWPY Rqn6zTYD2Py1tGP5aQCFCA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1phx0A-0000si-WF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:27:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from John Yates on Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:14:36 -0400) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143160 Archived-At: > From: John Yates > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:14:36 -0400 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > On my 4K monitors, using a moderately small font, splitting the one line > minibuffer into two columns, input and echo area, seems attractive to me. Split how? The Emacs display engine doesn't support column-wise display that you are describing, it can only do that if the mini-window is split into two side-by-side windows, but that will run afoul of many assumptions everywhere that there's at most only one min-window per frame. So I'm not sure I understand the idea of your proposal.