From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 11276@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11276: minibuffers windows can no longer explictly be resized
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:49:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837gxaisoi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F913415.6050307@gmx.at>
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:01:57 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: rgm@gnu.org, 11276@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> >> > (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".
Would it be better if we said "the frame's other windows", in plural?
> It took me some while to find out that the other window must be a
> full height live window.
??? I can resize the minibuffer window like this:
emacs -Q
M-: (setq resize-mini-windows nil) RET
C-x 2
drag the mode line of the lowest window with the mouse
What is the recipe where you must have a full-height window above the
minibuffer?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-20 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 1:04 bug#11276: minibuffers windows can no longer explictly be resized Glenn Morris
2012-04-19 6:56 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-19 7:12 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-19 10:42 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-19 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-19 15:13 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-19 17:18 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-20 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-20 10:01 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-20 10:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-21 1:01 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-19 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-19 17:23 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-20 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-20 10:01 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-20 10:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-04-20 12:05 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-20 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-20 15:31 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-19 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
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