From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "bachmann@geo.uzh.ch" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: annoying menu in minibuffer for selecting input charset (?) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:15:02 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <11d5f8dc-da4b-4040-b3f3-afa43766d436@a35g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <777382c0-012c-4dc9-85ab-1abd134efede@e67g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198143702 22571 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2007 09:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:41:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 20 10:41:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J5HuY-0002xW-St for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:41:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J5HuE-0006uc-O1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:41:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!p69g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.60.176.203 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1198142103 849 127.0.0.1 (20 Dec 2007 09:15:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:15:03 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p69g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=130.60.176.203; posting-account=UMTongoAAAD3PVFHPYFfQ-_DnzAvIuTs User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154823 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50249 Archived-At: On Dec 17, 9:17 pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: "bachm...@geo.uzh.ch" > > Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:54:21 -0800 (PST) > > > In the minibuffer I see the words "glish/European]" (the font-size is > > bigger than in other parts and the font-weight is bold. The start of > > the string "[English" lies outside the emacs windows and is not > > visible). When I click into the minibuffer a small window pops up > > showing the 8 entries. > > > The annoyance is that I don't see any minibuffer 'messages' when I'm > > e.g. looking for a file (hitting C-x f, entering the beginning of a > > file name and then hitting TAB, or hitting M-x and starting to enter a > > command), The regular minibuffer messages appear above the menu and I > > have first to resize first the minibuffer before I see what I typed > > (the minibuffer is only 1 line height and does not automatically > > expand). > > To illustrate the problem better I took some screenshots: They can be > > seen herehttp://www.sonoqua.ch/emacs/. > > > > Also, does this happen when you start Emacs with "emacs -Q"? If the > > > problem disappears in "emacs -Q", there's something in your .emacs or > > > the system-wide site-start.el file that causes this annoyance. > > '-Q' doesn't remove the menu. > > Very strange. I cannot find in the stock Emacs distribution any files > that could result in the display shown in your screen shots. Maybe > I'm blind? > > What OS is that, and what does "M-x emacs-version RET" say? > Also, what are the values of `system-configuration' and > `system-configuration-options'? emacs-version = GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-pc-solaris2.8, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2007-06-06 on thor system-cofnguration = "i386-pc-solaris2.8" system-configuration-options = " '--prefix=/opt/csw' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O3 -march=i486 ' 'CPPFLAGS= -I/ opt/csw/include -I/opt/csw/gcc3/include -I/opt/csw/gcc3/include/c++/ 3.4.5 -I/opt/csw/include '"