GNU bug report logs - #11276
minibuffers windows can no longer be explicitly resized

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11276 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rgm <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#11276: minibuffers windows can no longer explictly be resized
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:23:02 +0200

>> Does it work if you set `resize-mini-windows' to nil?  If I do that
>> here, I can, for example, drag the divider between the emacs -Q main
>> window and the minibuffer window with the mouse.
>
> This doesn't work for me, neither on the trunk nor on the emacs-24
> branch.

With a split frame you should be able to do that.

>>  > (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"?

martin

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