On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> One problem I
> foresee is that there would no longer be anything to separate the main
> window area from the minibuffer.  Have you any thoughts on how this
> would be handled?


This may seem heretical but I would move the mini-buffer to the topof
the frame.  I can already approximate such a layout using a separate
mini-buffer frame and the _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL property.

Ideally there would be a frame parameter that would allow me to specify
that the mini-buffer should be positioned at the top of the frame.

My motivation here is that I have a single, large, very high resolution
screen.  I maintain a set of tall, horizontally arrayed windows.  I advise
split-window and delete-window to keep all windows balanced.  Since
these windows are so tall very often they are only partially filled.  The
net effect is that interesting content is concentrated at the top of my
screen.  That being the case needing to look to the bottom of the
screen to inspect the mode-line and/or mini-buffer only slows me down.
I would be much happier if I could have:
    * the mini-buffer at the top of its frame
    * the mode-line at the top of its window

/john