From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at>, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 67715@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67715: 28.2; Minibuffer content is sometimes unexpectedly partially hidden
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 07:44:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83jzpmwr0d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y1e3axo9.fsf@metalevel.at> (message from Markus Triska on Sat, 09 Dec 2023 22:11:34 +0100)
> From: Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at>
> Cc: 67715@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2023 22:11:34 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I'm not sure I understood, but if you put a face on some text, and
> > then type at the end of that text, the additional text you type is
> > supposed to "inherit" that face, no?
>
> I mean: When my program runs, I do not type anything myself, but the
> program simulates that something is being typed by me. For example, when
> I ask the program to perform one step, it may simulate that M-x is
> pressed, by inserting the text "M-x " in the minibuffer, and then wait
> for further instructions (by me). When I then ask the program to perform
> the next step, it may simulate that "emacs-uptime" is being typed, and
> thus incrementally add the letters "e", "m", "a", ... to the minibuffer
> while waiting for a short amount of time after each letter, until (in
> total) "M-x emacs-uptime" appears in the minibuffer. The goal is that we
> can simulate the effects of typing while minimizing manual effort.
>
> This all already works as expected in Emacs versions before 28.2, and it
> works to a large extent also in later versions. The only remaining
> problem I have with Emacs 28.2 and later versions is that in situations
> like the one I posted, the minibuffer is no longer adequately grown to
> fully display the text it contains (because the program wrote it there).
>
> With your snippet, I can work around a very specific case of this, where
> a single string is shown in the minibuffer. For my use case though, this
> is not yet enough, because my program simulates manual edits by changing
> text in the minibuffer, such as adding or removing individual letters.
You could perhaps use 'message'. Here's a trivial demo:
(defun my-msg ()
(interactive)
(message (propertize "something" 'face '(:height 2.0))))
(defun my-msg2 ()
(interactive)
(message (propertize "something else" 'face '(:height 2.0))))
(global-set-key [f5] 'my-msg)
(global-set-key [f6] 'my-msg2)
Evaluate the above, then press F5 followed by F6.
> I am therefore interested in ways to grow the minibuffer so that it is
> large enough, while allowing very flexible editing operations to be
> simulated in it that go beyond showing a single string.
I'm showing you all the methods I can come up with. Maybe Martin or
others will have better ideas (so please don't elide their addresses
when replying).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-10 5:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-08 19:03 bug#67715: 28.2; Minibuffer content is sometimes unexpectedly partially hidden Markus Triska
2023-12-08 20:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-09 7:04 ` Markus Triska
2023-12-09 7:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-09 9:04 ` Markus Triska
2023-12-09 11:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-10 8:12 ` Markus Triska
2023-12-10 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-11 17:12 ` martin rudalics via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14 7:43 ` Markus Triska
2024-01-14 8:49 ` martin rudalics via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-09 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-09 20:09 ` Markus Triska
2023-12-09 20:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-09 21:11 ` Markus Triska
2023-12-10 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-12-10 17:59 ` Markus Triska
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