Subject: bug#11276: minibuffers windows can no longer explictly be resized

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:01:57 +0200

>>  >>  > (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".  It took me some while to find out that the
other window must be a full height live window.

martin