From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Suno Ano Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: minibuffer at the top Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:41:52 +0000 Message-ID: <87k5onuu7z.fsf@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194897090 10347 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2007 19:51:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:51:30 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 12 20:51:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IrfJk-0001qC-Uc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:51:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IrfJS-0004Dq-40 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:51:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IrfJO-0004Ce-31 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:51:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IrfJM-0004Ba-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:51:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IrfJM-0004BK-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:51:08 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IrfJI-0007w6-LJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:51:06 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IrfIJ-00064S-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:50:03 +0000 Original-Received: from 85.127.115.176 ([85.127.115.176]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:50:03 +0000 Original-Received: from itsmethemax by 85.127.115.176 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:50:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.127.115.176 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cPkBx0CWm1EesE3dy93F7grPyEU= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:83074 Archived-At: By default the minibuffer window is at the bottom of a frame (other windows on top the minibuffer). Is it possible to put the minibuffer at the top (other windows below)? ,----[ Reason why I am asking ... ] | Times have changed and nowadays many of us tend to use notebooks. The | angle between looking at some notebook screen and some workstation | monitor is different. From my point of view it is much more comfortable | and healthy to look straight instead of having to "tilt" my head down | (even bend my whole body) in order to work with the minibuffer when I | use the notebook. `---- Having a separate frame[0] for the minibuffer is not an option. From my point of view, there should be some option to put the minibuffer window at either the bottom or the top of the frame. [0] http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?Dedicated_Minibuffer_Frame